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NOTE. — The first plate represents Saturn in its first grade, and eacl 
resents the Second grade, and the process of the horizontal form, including 
the third grade, and the sub-division of the parallel worlds, with the ring or 

Figure 17 represents the fourth grade of Saturn in full form. Jupiter ; 
difference, and that of the extra stand of horizontal worlds, right and left of 
pared with the rest of the planet3 are these : that if it should he proven by di 
follow that it was a combination caused from inner heat of the primitive plai 
have a rotation on their axis, it would follow that they were formed by a co 
which bursted it asunder, but if it should be demonstrated that some of them 
then it would hold good that they never had any connection with each other 




rate division parallel, including the ring. Figure 13 rep- 
ng. Figure 16, in the latter part of the book, represents 
3ntal form. 

ould be like it, with the exception of the ring, with this 
Lddle division. The peculiarities of the asteroids as corn- 
ring that they have no rotation on their axis, then it would 
ia t formsd them. But if it should be proven that they 
tion caused by a violent rotation of the primitive planet 
a rota'ion on their axis, and that others actually do not, 




NOTE. — The first plate represents Saturn in its first grade, and each separate division parallel, including the ring. Figure 15 rep. 
resents the Second grade, and the process of the horizontal form, including the ring. Figure 16, in the latter part of the book, represents 
the third grade, and the sub-division of the parallel worlds, with the ring or horizontal form. 

Figure 17 represents the fourth grade of Saturn in full form. Jupiter also would be like it, with the exception of the ring, with this 
difference, and that of the extra stand of horizontal worlds, right and left of the middle division. The peculiarities of the asteroids as com- 
pared with the rest of the planets are these : that if it should be proven by discovering that they have no rotation on their axis, then it would 
follow that it was a combination caused from inner heat of the primitive planets that formed them. But if it should be proven that they 
have a rotation on their axis, it would follow that they were formed by a combination caused by a violent rotation of the primitive planet 
which bursted it asunder, but if it should be demonstrated that some of them have a rotation on their axis, and that others actually do not, 
then it would hold good that they never had any connection with each other. 





BIBLE ASTRONOMY; 



THE LITTLE BOOK ON THE MISTERIES AJJD WONDERS 

OF THE 

RISE AND FALL OF BABYLON. 




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BY JOSIAH F. MELCHER, 



ST. LOUIS, MO: 

PBIHTED UZ IZZ ST. LOUIS IWTEI.I,IGElSrCER BUILDINGS. 
1853. 










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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



There h p collective meaning to this book that might be overlooked: 
First, there are seven grades to the Earth, six of them have passed and the 
seventh is not yet come, and when it comes cometh its fall. Second, there 
are .-even grades 1o the Caiholic world or Babylon, of her temporal and 
spirit' ai power — six of them have passed away, both of the temporal and 
spiritual, she being now in the seventh of each; and in the seventh cometh 
her fall, like the Earth, but not at the same time. 

Again, all the texts are brought in the most direct form, briefly to illus- 
trate the true meaning of the subjects under consideration. First, the 
Earth from its first primitive state through a succession of grades and dif- 
ferer t forms up to its perfect state. Seco d, ot ihe solar system by com- 
parison with ihe Earth. Third, of the rise ai.d fall of Babylon. And in or- 
der of il ustrarion, first — 
The First Giade— First Feaven, ------- 7 

Second Grade— Remodeling of the Earth, ------ 3 

Process of Remodeling, -------„_ 9 

The ftarthj according to the Second Grade, ----- xo 

Illustration of the Second Grade, according to the old supposition, 11 
Third G-ade — Geography of the Earth, -_--__ \\ 
Fomth Grade, - -- -------12 

Domin'on of the Birds — Fifth Grade, ______ 13 

Dominion of A an— Sixth Grade, ------- 14 

Dominion of God— Seventh Grade, _----__ 34 

Collective Illustration of the Farth, - - - - - - 15-16 

Organic Illustration of the I- arth, _______ 17-18 

The Earth, acc-ordi 1 g to the Flood, _-_-__ 18-19 
The Flood and Tide, - - - - - - - -19,20,21,22 

Attraction. ----------- 22-23 

Magnetic Attraction, --------- 23-24 

The Northern Lights, - - - - - - - - 24, 25, 26 

The Solar System by Comparison, -------27 

Form ot the Planet Mercury as compared with the Earth, - - 27-28 
Form of the Planet Venus, as compared with the Earth, - - - 28 
The Earh, ----------- 29 

Form of Jupiter, as compared with the Earth, - 29-30 

Form of Saturn, - - - - - - - - - 30, 31, 32 

Collective Illustration of the Solar System, - - - 32-33 

Organic Illustration, -- --_- -- -33 

The Sun, -- 33-34 

The Earth in its Seventh Grade, ------ 34, 35, 36 



VI CONTENTS. 

A new Heaven a-d a new Earth, according to promise, - 36, 37, 38, 39 
Compression Attraction, - - - - - - - 39,40,41 

Fra k in h side of the Farth, - : - - - 41 

Indefinite Reflection of Light, ------- 41-42 

Curiosities in the Earth, - ------- 42 

Nebulae Hypothesis, --------- 42-43 

Feco d illustratioT of th? Texts or Grades of the Earth, - - 43-44 
Magnetic A ttracrior — Second lllustta ion, - - - - - 44-45 

Philosophy of Lafiac's Theory on Nebulous Masses, 45 

A new Heaven and 1 e\v Earth, - - - - - - 45, 46 47 

The New Times, --- ------ 47-48 

The Earth in its new Form, -------- 48-49 

Sorcery, o-r Spiritual Eapping, ------ 49. 50, 51 

The Bible, - _--------_ 51.52 

Rise a- d Fall of Tabylon, - 52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62.63.64 65 
Revelations— Seven Seals, ----- _ - 65 66,67 

Act* of Babylon, --------- 68, 69, 70 

Revelations— Tenth Chapter, --- --.--71 

Seven Last Plagues, or Spiritual Grades of Babylon, - 71,72,73,74 75 
Spiritual Graces of Babylon, ----- - _ 76-77 

The Overthrow of Bab Ion, - - - - - - - 77, 78, 79 

War with Babylon, - - - - - - - - -80.81,82 

Definition of Spiritual Rapping, 82.83,84 

The Catholic Church, 85-86 

The iMillenium, 86 

Satan again after the Millenium, 87,83,89,90 

Conclusion, 9i 

Errata, - - 92 



INTRODUCTION. 



In getting up the present theory on the organic illustration of the earth, 
and to provide suitable text to give t'»e figure throughout, and then har- 
monize all the singular phenomena connected with it in that great chain 
of connecting links that bind* it all together in a system of philosophy 
that cannot be separated without destroying the whole and leaving all 
these great mysteries forevt-r unexplained that go to develope every single 
feature connected with it, as well as might be by actua- disco ery, we will 
take the Earth from its primitive state through a s- ccession of grades, as 
itoriginated from that dirk state into a world of light, that goes to developt 
its colloss^ farm. Alth ugh the bible does not explain all these things 
direct, because it aims at our spiritual interest, which is of more impor- 
tance to us than all the glories of this world, that go in part to give us tha 
great character of the builder; yet when it is oroperl> interpreted, and 
brought into proper form, it is more than evident; although many say that 
the bible will prove everything, the writer denies the potability of proving 
anyth ng else but the one form conaeted with the Earth and its mechan- 
ism, as laid down in the present ill istration. 

There are many things brought to bear m the present treaties that the 
bible does not explain direct. For instauce, the polar promotions, or land 
Burrounding the poles, which has to be inferred for this good reason, in re- 
lation to the flood ; First: r lhe waters that composed it were taken but of 
the Earth, or from the immense seas on the inside of the exterior world; 
and if the seas were connected by the poles in any way the water would 
pass into them as fast as it arose outside, if they were not complete" y de- 
bam d by land previous to the fl >od. A'l the fountain* of the great deep 
spoken of in the bible in relation to the flood, has reference to all the great 
vents where the water passes through the crust of the Earth from one sea 
to the other lying opposite, the most conspicuous of which m the mae -trom 
on the coast of Norway, where the water gQe* divii.i id lie (>ull of Mex- 
ico, where it rises again, and the small orbit of the inner worlds around 
the Earth's center eveiy twenty-seven and a half days has to be inferred, 
from the tides, the Gulf of Mexico, and this very thing, connected with 
the flood, the backward mot on of the planets every twenty-four hours and 
fort\-five minutes, from the rotation of the outPr world and the time of 
rotation of the whole by correspond ng motion one with another. 

Again, the term Heaven, in relation to the first, second, and third Heav- 
en, might be objected to from the same reason, as the bit»le does not dis- 
tinguish them as Mich; yet we cont nd that it does direct. First: In the 
beginning God created the Feavens and the Earth." Now, this was the 
first term made on the first day and the first Heaven and the other fol- 
lowing in relation to the first as second made on the second dav, an i 
stands as the second Eieaven, even in relation to the third term, or third 



XV INTRODUCTION. 

Heaven. "And on the second day God said let there be a firmament in the 
midst of the waters." Again: k - And let it divide the waters from the 
water*." This is the second Heaven. Neither d;d God command the sec- 
ond time in relation to it. Third term: ''And God made the firmament." 
Now every one may say that this is the second firmament or a third loca- 
tion; it has nothing to do with the dividing of the waters which were 
above or under the firmament, or the dividing of the waters which it 
might have complete'y surrounded, nor o ly as a third location accord- 
ing to the third term in relatio-. to the first and seco >.d term as the third 
heave u Locate the term firmament a^y where you will a vd it will come 
out the same, or the third beavei. x 

Agai>, there are seve-j grades, a d in them the figure of the Earth, is 
given from the first to the seventh; nor is it possible to leave o e grade 
out without causing a great void, for they all succeed each other in regu- 
lar succession, thereby givi g the wonders of the worid beneath, a d the 
starry heave s above. Also, there ate seven grades to the great f-abyio 1, 
or Catholic world, both of her temporal a. id spiritual power — illustrated in 
the heve ) voices and the my>teries of the seven seals, a .d her fall by him 
that sarteth upon the white hor.»e. 

All the prophecies concer -i g this great Babylon have been fulfilled even 
to the seve ; thtii ders in the Bible and in your heari g ; and the sound of 
the trumpets of the seven a igels, from the begin sing of her spiritual des- 
tinydown to the prese t time, except the seve th angel, which is yet to 
sound; a d of the seven a gels vith the vials of the seve 1 plagues that 
have been poured ou„ upon her devoted head from the b gi i..ing down to 
the present time, except the seve ith, which is yet to be poured out ; a d 
when it comes, the seventh angel will sou d or act; the i s". a i the whole 
world turn again upon that mi hty pivot that will give afutuie to the na- 
tions. 

SECOND PART. 

Concer in? the mj-stery of the seventh a gel that is yet to sound a-d of 
the seventh plague that is yet to come, it is hard to tell o ■ determine xrom 
the B.ble, with a y certainty when it will come, as the mystery or the types 
concer. i g that par - of Babylon, ca mot be solved with anything defi ite as 
to the dav, yet it is certain that her destiny hangs upon a short time., as 
all has nas-ed with her except this last ni3>terv, and when it c mes it will 
be a spiritual warfare, except that part of it that will be among themselves, 
then shall that horrid mon-ter, tyrant, go down to the pit amid the thun- 
ders and wrath of an Almighty God, to rise no more forever. 



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PRIMITIVE STATE OF THE EARTH 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY, 



FIRST GRADE.— FIRST HEAVEN. 

Vjesse 1. ;: In the beginning. God created the Heaven and 
the Earth. " (First Heaven.) 

2. " And the Earth was without f orm, and void, and dark- 
ness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God 
moved upon the face of the waters. " 

First: "And the Earth was without form/' its material being 
in the soft state, and compact throughout, or solid. Second: 
"and void," a state proper before the form, it being less than 
half its present size, which would follow from the firmaments 
formed in its center on the second day. Third: "and darkness 
was upon the face of the deep." 1st: The darkness means 
the incomprehensibility of the means by which the material of 
the Earth was brought together to form a world, in the dark 
state. 2d : The face of the deep is the face of all the Earth — all 
water — which would follow, as water is the lightest, and the 
earthy part the most attractive in the center. Fourth : u And 
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters," shows 
the power of rotation imparted to it by the hand of God. 

Again. "And God said let there be light: and there was 
light." It would follow from this that God was the light, as 
the Sun was not organised into a body of light until the i> 
day. 

4. "And God saw the light, that it was good ; and God divid- 
ed the light from the darkness:" (or, the designations of the 
different grades.) 



8 BIBLE AST HO NOMT. 

5. "And God called the light day, and the darkness he called 
night; and the evening and the morning were the first day:" 
(or grade.) 

Note.— Fig. 1 represents the Earth in the solid state, li void and with- 
out form." and in a state of ret>t, E shows the earthy part; M the water, 
or deep that surrounds it, and F the firmament, or Heaven on the outside. 



SECOND GRADE.— REMODELING OF THE EARTH. 

FIRST DIVISION. 

6. "And God said let there be a firmament in the midst of 
the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 

First: "And God said let there be a firmament in the midst 
of the waters." Now, this firmament is the second Heaven, 
made on the second day; and it is in the midst of the waters, 
in the earth; midst meaning the center. Second: "and let it 
(the firmament) divide the waters from the waters," means the 
dividing of the Earth into two separate worlds, one inside of 
the other. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

7. "And God made the firmament, (or third heaven,) and 
divided the waters which were under the firmament from the 
waters which were above the firmament, and it was so." This 
divides it a second time, showing a perfect separation of the 
second primitive part into two worlds, or all the Earth into 
three separate parts. 

8. "'And God called the firmament heaven, and the evening 
and the morning were the second day." 

Note.— Fig. 2 represents the transit of the Earth from the primitive 
state to the second grade— a heaven in the midst of the waters ; the divid- 
ing of the waters from the waters of the second heaven, and of the firma- 
ment of the third heaven* and its division. 



BIB X-E ASTRO NOMT. 9 

PROCESS OF REMODELING. 

SECOND ILLUSTRATION OF THE SECOND GRADE. FIRST DI- 
VISION. 

6. "And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of 

the waters." 

The text shows the Earth to be solid previous to this, and 
of course a great deal less in diameter, the diameter corres- 
ponding to the form to about 3,800 or 3,900 miles in its primi- 
tive state. The first division thrown off by rotation would be 
twice as great as the second; the first would reduce the Earth 
1,500 or 1,600 miles, and the second 700 or 800. 

6. "And let it divide the waters from the waters." 

First: "And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst 
of the waters." This is the second heaven; and further, midst 
means center in the Earth. 

Second: The division of the waters from the waters, con- 
veys reference to the second heaven ; division at a point be- 
tween two contending powers, attraction and centrifugal force. 
The Earth revolving with the same velocity of 1,000 miles 
an hour that it now revolves on its axis, which would be 
every twelve hours. It being formed without any variation 
of motion, therefore the Earth losing time as to rotation ac- 
cording to its increased size, maintaining the same velocity of 
1,000 miles an hour through all the process of remodeling up 
to twenty-four hours, and its diameter at 8,000 miles, revolving 
on an axis every twenty-four hours. 

Also leaving a planet 2,000 or 2,300 miles in diameter in 
its center, revolving on an axis every twelve hours, identical 
with the first primitive motion before the first division when it 
was all together. This motion was sufficient to produce the 
first division, but not the second, because what is now left is 
so much smaller, therefore its velocity was gradually increased 
to eight hours, by corresponding motions. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

m t. "And God made the firmament, (or the third Heaven.) 
and divided the waters which were under the firmament from 
the waters which were above the firmament." 



10 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

First: "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters 
(at a point between the limit of attraction and centrifugal force 
three or four hundred miles below the surface,) which were 
under the firmament . from the waters which were above the 
firmament ;" the planet revolving on an axis every eight hours: 
it losing time as to rotation according to its increased size, main- 
taining the same velocity of motion through all the process of 
division up to 3,500 miles in diameter, revolving on an axis 
every twelve hours; and leaving a small planet in its center 
1,400 or 1,500 miles in diameter, revolving on an axis every 
eight hours, which was gradually increased to six by corres- 
ponding motions, "and it was so." 

8. "'And God .called the firmament Heaven, and the evening 
and the morning were the second day." 

Note.— Fig. 3 represents the Earth in the Second Grade, with firma- 
ments in its center : second and third Heavens, formed by rotation, which 
divided into three parts, with open poles, and the minglicg of its material 
in a kind of chaos of land and water. 



THE EARTH ACCORDING TO THE SECOND GRADE. 

FIRST AND SECOND DIVISION. 

In relation to the first, second and third Heaven, the- Earth is 

divided into three separate worlds, one inside of the other. 

The first, 8,000 miles in diameter, the second being limited to a 

certain diameter is 3,500 miles, and the third to 1,500. The 

first revolving on an axis every twenty-four hours, the second 

being limited corresponding with the first once in twelve hours, 

and the third by the second to six hours. The second and third 

planets are not in the center of the world, but revolve around its 

center in conjunction w T ith the Moon once in twenty-seven and 

a half days; and they have an apparent backward motion 

around the Earth's center, every twenty-four hours, forty-five 

minutes, caused by the rotation of the outer division, in con- 

d with the revolving machinery of the inner worlds ; ftie 

of one plannet driving the other by attraction, for they 

not touch, except the extreme upper regions of the at- 



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BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 11 

mosphere, and that only when the Moon is in conjunction with 
the Sun for a few days, when the attraction is the greatest ; 
one motion corresponding with the other at the same time.'* 



ILLUSTRATION OF THE SECOND GRADE ACCORD- 
ING TO THE OLD SUPPOSITION. 

Therefore, the Earth being a solid compact body, and say 
that it always was, one will come to the conclusion that the 
firmament in the midst of the waters was the one between the 
clouds and the sea. "And God made the firmament and divid- 
ed the waters which were under the firmament from the waters 
which were above the firmament, and it was so." The clouds 
being made of water as well as the sea, and a heaven between, 
and the dividing of the waters all go to prove this : but where 
were the clouds? for it was done on the second day, and there 
was no cause to produce them until after the Sun was made. 
And we have the best kind of authority that there was not any, 
for the world was entirely finished, and God had not caused it to 
rain, neither was there a man to till the ground ; man, there- 
fore, was made first on the sixth day, then rain. But what was 
made on the second day? There was not any thing made — 
that day must have been blank — and yet, it was the greatest 
day of all, for in it the Earth received its collossive form. 



THIRD GRADE.— GEOGRAPHY OF THE EARTH. 

9. "And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gath- 
ered together unto one place, andlet the dry land appear; and 
it was so." 

It would follow as a matter of course, as land is more at- 
tractive than water and more elevated, that where there is a 
continent outside, there is one inside, assisted by centrifugal 
force of one against the other by attraction 
island against island (earth between the seas)—- phy 

of the earth inside corresponds with the outside ; 

2* 



12 BIBLE ASTROIOMT, 

ference, and that according to the flood — First: the continents' 
are smaller and greatly elevated, while the seas are larger and 
deeper. The poles being open 1,000 miles across, are com- 
pletely surrounded by a nearer belt of land previous to the flood 
however, the earth lying between the seas, projecting into the 
poles beyond the seas or water. 

10. " And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering 
together of the waters called he seas j and God saw that it was 
good," &c. 

13. "And the evening and tl^e morning were the third day." 

Note. — Fig. 4 represents the Earth in the third grade, giving the Geo- 
graphy throughout, first, of the outer division, now it would follow that 
where there is a continent outside, there must be one inside, opposite j and 
of the seas, and of the islands ; first, of the dry land, because it is more 
elevated and attractive, and will not stand upon water j second, of the 
seas, because they are less elevated and le3S attractive j third, of the 
islands, because they are more elevated and more attractive. The geogra- 
phy of the outer division on the inside, therefore, is the same as the out- 
side, and this will hold good and can be understood by all those that under- 
stand geography. 

Second: Of the second division—now, it would follow, that as the water 
was all outside of the Earth in its primitive state, that it nearly all, of 
course, arose with the first division, and that it was all land, or nearly so. 
This, also, will hold good of the third planet, and that its material is more 
?oiid and attractive — the colures are the polar circles or land, polaropenings. 



FOURTH GRADE. 

14. "And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of 
heaven, to divide the day from the night." 

Now, this is the first light of the Sun, on the Earth, day on 
the first division, twelve hours ; on the second, six hours ; and 
on the third, three hours — day and night on the inside of the 
inner world by indefinite reflection of the Sun's rays. 

15. "And let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for 
days, and years." 

First: The dividing of time to summer and winter; second: 
including the great varieties of seasons throughout all the ma- 
chinery of the world. When the Sun is north of the Equator, 
there are five months day and night inside, through the north 



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BIBLE AS1I10X0 M X" . 13 

pole, and the same way south, through the south pole. When 
tee Sun crosses the Equator, spring and fall, there is one month 
each of total night. Third : Variations of the day. Fourth : 
The dividing of time. 

15. "And let them be for lights in the firmament of t\i2 
Heaven, to give light upon the Earth, and it was so." 

16. "And God made two great lights," Sec. "'And God set 
them in the firmament of the Heaven to give light upon the 
Earth." 

18. "And to rule over the day and over the night, and to di- 
vide the light from the darkness, and God said that it was 
good." 

Previous to this, God was the light of the world. 

19. "'And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." 
Nov/, it is not to be supposed that God was governed by the 

light of the Sun, in the designation of the days or grades of the 
Earth; neither was God confined to any one part of it 5 and as 
the Sun never sets on the world, the days being designated be- 
tween the evening and the morning, and as the light of the Sun 
is as darkness to that of the light of the Almighty, one might 
well suppose that the Sun had nothing to do with it, only as it 
was intended in the remodeling of all the solar system at the 
same time. 

20. "AndVGpd said, M we waters bring forth abundantly 
the moving creature thatYnath life, \and fowl that mayfly 
above the Eafrth^n the op/n rmnainent of\ Heaven." 

Note. — Fig, 5 represents the principle of light indefinitely reflected to 
different parts of the Earth inside; the white shows the light, and the 
different shades of darkness that of night, and the lines the different cours- 
es of the reflection of light. 



FIFTH &RADE. 

20. "And God said, let the waters bring forth abundantly 
the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above 
the Earth in the open firmament of Heaven." 

Now, it might well be supposed that there were birds on the 
inside of the Earth, moreover, they might pass from one divis- 



14 BIBLE ASTRONOMY 

ion to the other, especially when the Moon is in conjunction 
with the Sun, and the attraction the greatest; for at such a 
time, all the world is in conjunction within, then the atmos- 
phere of the respective worlds would join, and owing to the 
principle of the reflection of light, the upper regions of the air 
would not be cold like the outside, and as the motions corres- 
pond, there would be no friction between them, but a perfect 
medium of air by which they could pass.* 

22. "And God blessed them saying, be fruitful and multiply, 
and fill the waters in the seas, and let the fowl multiply in the 
Earth." 

In the waters, in the seas, and the fowl in the Earth. 

23. "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." 

Note. — Fig. 6 represents the figure of the Earth in full form, with the 
locations of the first, second and third Heavens, and the clouds cj.used 
from the light and heat of the Sun. 



SIXTH GRADE. 

24. "And God said, let the Earth bring forth the living crea- 
ture after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beast of the 
Earth after his kind; and it was so." 

26. "And God said, let us make man in our image, after our 
likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, 
and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 
the Earth, and over every thing that creepeth upon the Earth." 

First: The dominion of man, not only over the fishes of the 
sea, but the depths of the sea ; second : not only the fowl, but 
the air itself, for where the birds can go, man eventually will 
navigate all the Earth throughout, and through the air; third: 
not only over the cattle but the world collectively ; fourth : not 
only over all the Earth, but all the elements connected with it; 
fifth: not only over every thing that creepeth upon the Earth, 
but over their own actions. 

27. "So God created man in his own immage, in the image 
of God created he him; male and female created he them." 
(Fearfully made!) 

* All this has to he Inferred from the ultimate dominion of man over 
all the Earth, 



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OLES. 



DIBLE ASTRONOiir. 15 

28. "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be 
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth, and subdue it; 
(subdue the Earth, every part of it;) and have dominion over 
the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every 
living thing that moveth upon the Earth." 

31. "'And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold 
it was very good ; and the evening and the morning were the 
sixth day." 

Thus, the Heavens and the Earth were finished, and all the 
hosts of them, (or the Earth collectively,) and on the seventh 
day, God rested from all his work."* 

Note. — Fig. 7 represents tlie Earth in full form, with the locations of 
the first and second divisions ; the poles, and a display of the Northern 
Lights, as they stand in order of reflection out of the inner world, and of 
the clouds. 



COLLECTIVE ILLUSTRATION OF THE EARTH. 

SECOND GRADE. FIRST DIVISION. 

It would follow from the figure of the Earth, according to 
the Bible, that in its primitive state, it was not more than half 
its present size, the outer crust being about three hundred and 
fifty miles thick at the Equator, tapering down to one hundred 
at the poles. The philosophy of that great system of revolv- 
ing waters proves this, to-wit: the Gulf Stream, the water going 
through on the coast of Norway, in the maelstrom to the inner 
world, and then being drawn south-west by the revolving ma- 
chinery of the inner world, opposite the Gulf of Mexico, 
where it again rises to the outside, and then passing out in the 
Gulf Stream for the coast of Norway, where it is again drawn 
through ; although the greatest strain of attraction is near 
Equator, but owing to the Earth being so very thick, and 
water after passing out of the Gulf flows north-east near 
the North Pole to find a vent; because it is thinner near the 
north. And why does the water rise again in the Gulf of 

* It wonld follow from the fourth and sixth verses, second cha] 
Gcnesisv that it did not rain until after the sixth day. 



16 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

Mexico so near the Equator where it is so very thick? First : 
because, on the outside, the water runs out, and on the insde it 
runs in ; for wiiere there is land outside, there is inside oppo- 
site, therefore the water must come through. Second : And as 
the water is drawn in by the great attraction of the inner 
worlds revolving around the Earth's center, thereby keeping 
the water elevated by successive revolutions to more than a 
mile high; and being bounded by land on three sides, and the 
pressure of the water very great, therefore the water comes 
through. The elevation of the water outside in the Gu]f of 
Mexico, above the Pacific, proves a great elevation inside ; the 
very cold surface of water within the warm that surrounds it, 
shows the limits of the immense vent where the waters rise. 
The elevation of the deluge on the Earth at the time of the 
flood proves an enormous elevation inside ; for the flood came 
out of the Earth through the Gulf of Mexico, until it corres- 
ponded in elevation above the Earth to that of the inside. The 
maelstrom on the coast of Norway being stopped, the poles • 
being surrounded by a belt of land or polar projections, the 
water prevailed on the Earth until the narrow belt of land on 
the edge of the pole gave way, and the water passed from oif 
the Earth into them 5 showing the Earth to be thin at the north 
and south, and thick at the Equator — on an average, however, 
of about two hundred miles. 

SECOND DIVISION. 

From the corresponding philosophy that produced the second 
division of the Earth, it must be very light, only one-half in 
thickness, or less, to that of the outside division, and of the 
same shape, only more open at the poles. The third planet 
being solid throughout, is about 1.5&G miles in diameter — neither 
is there much water on either side, the water being all outside 
of the Earth when in its primitive state, it nearly all, of course, 
arose with the first division, and the materials that compose 
them are more solid and attractive. 



B I B L K A S T ROXO M T . 17 

ORGANIC ILLUSTRATION OF THE EARTH. 

SECOND GRADE — FIRST AND SECOND DIVISION. 

It might be inferred that at the time of the Earth in its primi- 
tive state, that all the solar system existed at the same time, 
together with the Sun in their respective orbits around that 
dark and unorganized luminary; and as one part is indispensa- 
ble with the other, they were all brought into existence at the 
same time with the Earth, revolving on their respective axes; 
and that they were all fashioned at the same time, together 
with all their different forms, on the second and third day ; 
when on the fourth day the Sun burst forth w r ith all the splen- 
dors of that glorious light that lit up the whole Earth, together 
v/ith all the solar system now fashioned to receive its light. 

In getting the time of rotation in respect to the different 
planets that compose the world, all that is necessary is to com- 
pare one motion with the other ; and there are two degrees of 
motion, one that will compare with the first division of the 
Earth, and the other with the second. The force of the first 
motion was spent in producing the first; and the second mo- 
tion of the second degree was imparted by the first division, 
which checked the first, and produced the second ; while the 
second imparted a slight degree of motion to the third planet, 
or changed its rotation from eight hours to six, which checked 
the second, and the process of remodeling stopped, the forces 
being all spent, and the time of rotation harmonized through- 
out, corresponding in a perfect balance. 

The difference in the time of rotation of the first division 
was from twelve to twenty-four hours ; of the second, twelve 
hours first, then eight to twelve ; of the third planet eight to 
six hours. The difference in time of rotation of the first di- 
vision was twelve hours, of the second four hours, of the third 
planet two hours. Equal division would apply to the Earth 
very well ; that would show it to be in this form: The first di- 
vision 8,000 miles in diameter, second 4,000, third planet 2,000. 
That would do if they were in the center of each other ; but 
the philosophy of the Gulf stream proves that they are not; 
therefore they must be very small to have room to swing 
around the Earth's center every twenty-four hours forty -five 



18 BIBLE A3TH0N0MY. 

minutes, each one being a great deal less than half to the 
The latter divides day and night, equal in respect to 
the different divisions; and the former would not 



THE EARTH ACCORDING TO THE FLOOD— THE 
PHILOSOPHY OF THE DELUGE. 

According to the flood there is a difference in the figure of 
the earth. First : The poles were not accessable by water 
previous to it. They were completely surrounded by land 
sufficiently elevated to stop the flood from passing into them. 
The mean height of which did not exceed half a mile ; fifteen 
cubits above the high hills were the highest ; and the moun- 
tains were covered by the tides that increased on the Earth 
one hundred and fifty days. The forty days rain first was the 
time occupied in fetching the water out of the world; and tak- 
ing the vast quantity that composed the flood, at an elevation 
of half a mile, it would take twice the amount of water to 
what there is now on it at the present time ; therefore the seas 
are deeper on the inside than the out, and larger, while the 
continents are less, and greatly elevated, the tides rising to near 
half a mile high ; while on the outside they only rise a few 
feet; all being caused from the revolving machinery of the inner 
worlds, and in particular in the inner gulf opposite the Gulf of 
Mexico the water is elevated to more than a mile high, where 
it again passes in an immense whirlpool to the outside. And 
at the time of the flood the vent must have been greatly en- 
larged, the water rising in a perfect sea until the elevation of 
water corresponded with the inside, which was reduced in pro- 
portion to the elevation outside. 

The whole Earth being now covered with water, except the 
mountains, which was no more impediment to the tides then, 
than the isles of the sea to the present ones ; and instead of 
their being two every twenty-four hours and forty-five min- 
utes, they both joined into one, which gives them additional 
force ; and being influenced by the natural cause that produced 
them, they of course gathered strength by every successive rev- 
olution, until its enormous waves arose over the highest moun- 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 19 

tains, there being no continents above water to divide them or 
-counteract its power, they prevailed on the Earth until the poles 
gave way, and the waters returned from off the Earth into 
them to the inner world through an immense gap broken down 
by the flood and the violence of the tides, forming a free chan- 
nel, draining the Earth of its flood of waters. 

There being elevated mountains or land on the north-west 
coast of Greenland, and south on the south-east coast of Vic- 
torialand, and the tides coming in contact with those moun- 
tains, its waters would be turned north-west and south-west 
into the poles in overwhelming floods into the inner world at 
those points of longitude west from Greenwich 70 at the north 
pole, and 180 south. 

The current of magnetic attraction varying west from the 
true north to that point, then east ; also the northern lights be- 
ing reflected light out of the Earth, varies from the true north 
to this very point, being reflected out of the gap skewing. 
The polar projections still remain entire, with this exception ; 
and this will prevent a second flood, although the maelstrom or. 
the coast of Norway might be stopped together with all the 
fountains of the great deep, yet a surplus of water would pass 
into the poles, 



THE FLOOD AND THE TIDES, 

The old school, on the philosophy of the tides, is a perfect 
contradiction 5 for it is well known that they rise in direct op- 
position to the Moon's attraction, and that too when the Moon 
is in conjunction with the Sun The tides are caused by the 
continual changing of the material world itself 5 and as 
the tides are inseparably connected with other causes 
connected therewith ; and the philosophy that produced them 
cannot be changed without destroying the whole. Now. 
the Moon has nothing to do with the tides, no more than it had 
with the flood, only as it effects the material world by effecting 
a continual changing of matter connected with it, which causes 
the tides inside of the Earth and out, or in other words, the 
tides, the gulf stream, the elevation of the water in the Gulf 
3 



£0 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

of Mexico above the Pacific Ocean. And the deluge was and 
is caused by the revolving machinery of the material world, 
and the continual changing of the place of conjunction with 
the rotation of the outer worlds causing one tide every twenty- 
five hours; and the intervening continents connected with the 
compression and elevation of the Earth's surface, causing the 
second tide of re-action corresponding in elevation and re-ac- 
tion with the main tide wave, the same as one wave of the sea 
corresponds and re-acts with the other, or on a whole, with the 
whole world, Causing the two tides every twenty-five hours. 

The spring tides are caused mainly from the compression 
and elevation of the crust of the Earth ; and as it is very thin 
in comparison to its size, and being subject to a continual 
change as to the Moon's place in the Heavens, the greatest 
strain therefore would be when the Moon is in opposition to 
the Sun or in conjunction, thereby compressing the two oppo- 
site sides together, in connection with the rotation of the 
Earth on its axis, which continually changes the place of com- 
pression, which tends to give a spring to the tides. 

When the Moon is in the quadratures, the Sun would com- 
press the Earth one way, and the Moon at right angles the 
other way, thereby reducing the action of the Earth on the 
tides. 

Note. — Fig. 8 represents the crust of the Earth parallel with the equa- 
tor, with its inner world, W. showing the philosophy of all its motions and 
actions upon the tides both inside and out, the cause of the flood, the Gulf 
stream, as it stands in connection, being all produced from the same cause. 
For illustration, let the reader face the south so that the left hand will be 
to the east and the right to the west. Let the dark body marked Y. in four ' 
places show the solid crust of the outer world, I). P. the western conti- 
nent, or elevation of land, both inside and out, opposite, crossing at Mexi- 
co. And S. J. Europe, an elevation of land both inside and out, opposite, 
crossing at Norway, Let A. represent the Atlantic Ocean outside, and N. 
the Atlantic Ocean inside opposite. And H. the Pacific Ocean outside, and 
Q. the inside opposite. First, the philosophy of the Gulf stream. Now, 
the sea would not run from the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of Norway 
where it goes through the ciust of the Earth to an inner sea through the 
maelstrom, then west to the Gulf of Mexico, where it again rises to the 
outside, without some great controlling cause ; because the water would 
come to a level and stop. Therefore, the inner world W. must have a west- 
erly motion around the Earth's centre every twenty-four hours forty-flve 
minutes, in the direction of the dart, T., caused by the rotation of the outer 
world in the eastern motion ; thereby causing the Inner world W. to act 



BIBLE AS Til ON OJIY 21 

upon the waters of the inner sea by attraction, in keeping the water ele- 
vated at the dart 0., by successive revolutions to more than a mile high, 
when the sea again passes in an immense maelstrom to the outside, then 
out of the Gulf in the Gulf stream in the direction of the dart A. to the 
dart K. or maelstrom on the coast of Norway, when it is again drawn 
through ; then running south-west, in the direction of the dart N. to the 
Gulf of Mexico inside, then out to the outside, then north-east again on 
the outside. 

Again: The tides are caused from the same machinery of the inner world, 
both inside and out. For illustration, let Q. Q. represent the elevation of 
the tides inside, and H. and M. the tides outside. Now, it would follow 
that they would rise by attraction inside, because it is direct; and 
oh the outside, after the inner world had passed tbe point of the tides two 
or three hours, and then following by attraction on an angle ; the tides be- 
ing caused on the outside partly by attraction and partly by the spring of 
the outer crust of the Earth acting on them. Again: There would not be 
but one tide if there was no continents in the way to divide them, or one 
every twenty-four hours forty-five minutes ; and. this was the case in the 
time of the flood, after the water arose over them. The maelstrom on the 
coast of Norway being stopped, and the water rising in the Gulf of Mexi- 
co out of the Earth to an elevation of half a mile high, or over all the land, 
except the top of the mountains, to the point of the dart B. and F. Now it 
would follow that if the Earth was all covered with water, that the tides 
would pass clean around it, over continents and all, and gather strength by 
every successive revolution until it would arise to the point dart E. More- 
over it would follow that there would be but one tide every twenty-five 
hours, represented from the outside line at the dart L.; because there are no 
continents above water to divide them or check its force, and only one cause 
to produce it, in its position to the attraction of the inner world, thereby 
following it by attraction, the same as the other tid?s. Again : The inner 
world has two motions besides its rotation. First, the progressive motion 
around the Earth's centre'in the direction of the dart U. once in twenty- 
seven and a half days, caused by the attraction of the Moon; and the back- 
ward apparent motion in the direction of the dart T., caused by the easterly 
rotation of the outer world in twenty-four houfs. Now add forty-five min- 
utes for each day's progressive motion of the inner world to the twenty-four 
hours rotation of the outer one, and it will make up for the apparent west- 
erly motion of the inner world around the Earth's centre once in twenty- 
four hours forty-five or fifty minutes. 

The inner world W. turns upon its axis from west to east. The spray 
above the letter 0. represents the violence of the tides, and the inner mael- 
strom. The parallel line that clips the tides shows the level of the sea in- 
side. The dart L shows the spray arising from the mountains, and the 
violence of the flood outside of the Earth. 

REMARKS. 
It would follow from the violence of the flood upon the Earth, that even 
mountains were torn up by the roots and new ones formed, and all the 
face of the Earth changed, from the petrification of sea shells to be found 



22 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

in all parts of it, besides the formations that might have been formed in 
the different grades of the Earth; and we have good reason to suppose that 
there was, for there were fishes and birds in the fifth grade long before 
Adam was made, and each grade might have occupied a period of one thou- 
sand years; aud there might have been shell fish in the Earth even in its 
primitive state, and that they become mixed up with all the world in the 
second and third grades. 

CONTEMPLATION. 
When you stand upon the shores of the Ocean and see the tide approach- 
ing, then know that the inner world is passing beaeath your feet in all that 
mighty grandure of revolving worlds.. 



ATTRACTION. 

Instead of there being a difference in the rate of attraction 
on the in respect to their sizes, there is but one uni- 

form rale governing them all, only as it respects their different 
sizes in relation to the Sun, and that is counteracted by cen- 
trifugal force bringing it all to a uniform rate ; and that is the 
case with all superfluous attraction, by resolving itself into one 
standard that governs all universal matter. If a man weigh- 
ing 150 pounds were placed on the planet Jupiter, Mercury, 
or the Moon, he would weigh only the same on either. The 
physical constitution of each is such as to bring them all to 
one standard with the Earth ; nor is it to be supposed that 
they are all solid and compact, except the sattelites ; but that 
they all possess firmaments in their centres and revolving mat- 
ter, or worlds. 

Mercury and Mars would contain one firmament and one 
world each ; by comparison with the Earth, Venus would be 
like the Earth, and nearly on the same principle. 

The features of the planet Mars indicate a very light form 
from the poles being compressed, and from its slow motion of 
rotation, a very light planet in its center. If Mercury and 
Mars contain one planet each, the Earth certainly contains 
tvvo. The Earth could contain either Mercury or Mars in its 
center without much material alteration. 

The planet Jupiter evidently contains a great deal of revolv- 
ing machinery, together with Saturn, from their immense ve- 
locity of rotation on their axes, to prevent a collapse, and on 






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BIBLE ASTRONOMY 03 

a different plan from the Earth or the inferior planets, if not 
altogether on the horizontal or flat worlds, with a rotation on 
their axes flatwise every ten hours, continually changing in re- 
spect to their axes, caused by the horizontal rotation ; or in 
other words, they pass around each other every ten hours, and 
revolve horizontally with planets. 

The asteroids were evidently once formed into one planet, 
and at the time of the remodeling of the solar system from its 
primitive state, it might have been left in that form until it had 
become gradually heated to an immense degree, and was bro- 
ken to pieces by a great convulsion which formed them; and 
in fact this would have been the case with all the planets had 
they been left in that state, or with such as were composed of 
land and water. 

The Moon might be classed among those bodies that are 
solid from its having no rotation on its axis, only as it passes 
around the Earth ; neither is there water or moisture connect- 
ed with it, if it is not excessively heated. 

Neither is the Sun a solid body, but that it is a great system 
of itself, moving with a rapidity of motion in respect to its 
material organization not known to the planets ; for such an 
immense body could not exist in a solid state. 

A planet is not altogether attractive from the of 

matter that it contains, but from the amount of surface ; and 
this agrees with magnetic attraction. And it is more than like- 
ly they both partake of the same principle. 



magnetic attract:: 

Magnetic attraction is decidedly a current attaching itself to 
the surface only, or is attracted by the greatest amount of sur- 
face without, passing through a solid body. For illustration, 
take two cannon balls both of tfcbe :, one a solid one 

of fifty pounds weight, and the other a hollow one of six 
pounds ; then place them a few feet :n place the 

magnetic needle on an angle the 

hollow one will attract it w contai] 

the most metal will not. An I with a 



BIBLE ASTEOXOMY, 

very large iron ball that was hollow with a ho' 

filled with sheat iron, then place the magnet in any po 

with it, or place it on top of the ball, then tarn it around either 

way to vary the needle from the true nor:: 

the philosophy of the material world. 

Note. — Fig. 9 shows the philosophy of magnetic a tt: 
flowing into the poles to all parts of the inner world, it being attracted by 
the greater amount of surface wi tag through a solid body; and it 

f easy to be understood* Moreover, if the poles were not open the 
attraction would not be known; therefore {he poles being open, the cur- 
rent of attraction flows north and south into them by the mos* 
course. 



TK_ .I&HT& 

The Northern Lights with all their vari: - ex- 

plained in any way, only i 

ed light out of the Earth, and in fact it cannot be anything 
at the light of the Sun passing in at one pole. 
3 reflection of the Sun's light passing out of the oppo- 
site pole. All the variations of 

ing clouds on the edges of the about 

.1, and the light passing c stwec : item, or shining on 
foul air of any kind, thereby emitting a pale light 
the action of the wind, with all the v tsplaya 

of the Lights caused by wind and th 
It cannot be electricity, because that has no certain dir: 
;ht has, after passing out of the atmosphere 
; to the stars. 
The Aurora Borealis — those are n 

. ititades, and always more or less brilliant, according to 
the state of the air. The strange images of light that : 
ten seen dancing in the sky, is caused by wind and re:: 
light out of the Earth upon the upper regi he air. thai 

iven about by wind reflecting the li: 

Note.— Fig. 10 represents the north polar opan'ng, a void space that 
- through the world from pole to pole. 1 in thres 

-hows the termination of the crust of the Earth that lays between 
jectlng into the pole beyond the seas cr water 



ays north 




BIBLE ASTRO N M I 25 

form, beyond which U is all open or a void space, all of which lays north 
of eighty degrees latitude. 

A POLAR GAP. 

For illustration, let the reader turn facing the north, so that the right 
hand will be to the east, and the left to the west; let N. represent the land 
of Greenland, Wl K. the north Georgian Islands or land, and B. the Polar 
Gap that was broken down by the flood, and U. elevated land on the west- 
ern coast of Greenland -it at the time of the 
flood, after the water had covered all the land except the tops of the moun- 
tains, when the tides began to increase on the Earth, that they, coming in 
contact with these mountains in their western course, and by which Its 
irs would be turned north-west into the pole in overwhelming fioodi 
into the inner world, thereby breaking down an immense gap, and formin g 
a channel of water by which a ship might pass to the inner world, were it 
not checked with ice. 

The variations of magnetic attraction west to this point, then east, 
pioves this. For illustration, let the meridian of longitude twenty - 
from Greenwich show the first line due north, and the line W. the first 
western variation of the magnet; thirty will show a greater variation west, 
forty the greatest, fifty its less, sixty still less, and seventy its parallel due 
h, marked P = : and west of that the variations aie east, rcark?d E.; 
thereby fixing the Polar Gap seventy west from Greenwich. 

Also, the Northern Lights fixes the Gap at this point, the light being 
reflected out of the Polar opening, varies jnst in proportion as magnetic 
attraction varies from the true north to this point. 

It would be a very easy matter to get into the inner world either by cross- 
ing the north-west part of Greenland by land, or the ice in the channel 
with boats, then take water and sail into the world through the Polar Gap, 
Into an inner sea lying opposite Bafiins Bay, on the inside of the exterior 
crust of the Earth: for the geography of the world inside is the same as 
the ont 

The islands marked A. shows the land discovered by Perry, many 
ago, and the channel by which he sailed in. 

But Franklin most likely took the Polar channel, and by some means got 
through the ice into the inner world. 

Note. — Fig. llrepresents the south polar opening the same as the north 
the outside part shows the water, and the darker body together with the 
projections, the termination of the crust of the Earth in a ragged form, 
and G. the Polar Gap. For illustration, let the reader face the south, so 
that the left hand will be to the east, and the right to the west, let B. re- 
present Yictorialand and the great chain of elevated mountains that ex- 
tend to the edge of the Polar opening. Xow, would it not follow that at 
the time of the flood, and of the flood tides, that in their westerly course 
around the world, they would come in contact with these mountains, and 
its waters would be turned south in overwhelming torrents into the inner 
rldj thereby breaking down a gap of great width, and draining the 
Earth of Its flood of waters. Such is the make of the land that by far the 
iter part of to 



26 BIBLE ASTRONOMY 

There is nothing else that can be brought to bear in order to locate the 
gap at this point; and indeed such might be the make of the land that the 
gap may not be cut into the crust of the Earth very deep, but of great 
width; while that of the north pole may be cut in a hundred miles, owing 
to the greater quantity of land laying on both sides of it. that extends into 
the pole above the gap. 

Note.— Spring Tides— Fig. 12 illustrative of the Spring Tides, shows 
the Earth parallel with the equator, and the inner world, in conjunction to 
the Sun and Moon, marked S., from the Earth's centre, compressing the 
two opposite sides together by attraction. The combined attraction of the 
Sun and Moon one way will not compete with the tenfold attraction of the 
machinery of the material world, which bends the outer division or crust 
of the Earth in opposite in connection, as it is with the rotation thereby 
rapidly changing the place of compresion which gives a great spring tu 
the tides. And it is the same way when the Moon is in opposition to the 
Sun, the Sun and Moon combining with the inner world to compress the 
outer one. 

v\ hen the Moon is in the quadratures the Sun and Moon combine to 
depress the spring of the Earth on the tides; although there is a regular 
spring all the time, caused by the action of the material world, but it is 
the greatest in time of the Moon's conjunction Avith the Sun, or opposition. 

If the worlds VV. were placed in the center of the Earth, there would be 
no tides. Again: If the Moon had any effect to produce them, a small 
lake would be the place to detect it by a slight rise in the water easterly 
when the Moon arose, or westerly when setting. 

The reason that compression and elevation does not effect a lake, is be- 
cause it rises and falls with the spring of the Earth's parallel; while oa the 
immense seas one side will rise and the other fall, thereby giving a great 
spring to the tides. 

For illustration, let 0. C. represent the places of compression caused by 
direct attraction of the inner world W. marked D. D. D. D. and E. E. the 
places of elevation caused by the diminishing of the attraction coming on 
an angle marked M. M., and K. the true circle of the outer world, and W. 
the inner world. Now, it would follow that the tides would rise where the 
attraction was the greatest, causing the Earth to spring and the tides to 
rise at A. A. The places of compression which changes rapidly from the 
rotation of the outer world east in the direction of the parallel dart once 
in twenty-four hours; while the inner world W. is retained in the apparent 
western motion, always in the same position as to the Moon's place in the 
heavens; thereby causing it to pass around the Earth's centre every twen- 
ty-four hours forty-five minutes, whcich causes the tides and their varia? 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 27 

THE SOLAR SYSTEM BY COMPARISON. 

There are four or five classes of planets. First: Mercury 
and Mars; Mecury being the nearest to the Sun, contains the 
most material, although less in diameter, or as much as Mars. 

Second class, Venus and the Earth; Venus being within the 
orbit of the Earth, it also contains as much matter as the lat- 
ter, although less in diameter. 

The third class is the Asteroids, formed from one planet. 

Fourth class is Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter contains more 
material than Saturn, ring and all. 

Fifth class is Herschel and Neptune. 

The first class of planets is formed of two worlds each, or 
one division by comparison. 

The second class, of two divisions. 

The third class, by a convulsion. 

The fourth class of four divisions, and three sub-divisions 
each, including the divisions and sub-divisions of Saturn's 
ring. 

Fifth class: There could be no comparison made, as the 
time of rotation is not known. 



FORM OF THE PLANET MERCURY AS COMPARED 
WITH THE EARTH. 

The first planet in order from the Sun is Mercury. Its real 
diameter is about 3,000 miles. It performs a rotation on its 
axis in twenty-four hours five minutes, and its axis is but little 
inclined to the eiiptic; while Mars, being classed with Mercu- 
ry, is greatly inclined; it being designed in the difference to 
equalize the light of each inside, as it regards the difference of 
their distance from the Sun. Mars therefore being so many 
times more distant, is as many times more inclined, thereby 
receiving as much light inside as Mercury. 

Mercury would contain one planet inside about ten or twelve 
hundred miles in diameter, revolving on an axis once in twelve 
hours, it passing around inside in conjunction to the Sun once 
in twenty-four hours five and a half minutes, caused by the 



28 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

rotation of the outer division or crust in the same time which 
would turn the inner division on its axis once in the 
aforesaid ten or twelve hours, by corresponding motion one 
with the other. 

The primitive diameter of Mercury would fall to about 
eighteen hundred miles. 



FORM OF THE PLANET VENUS AS COMPARED 
WITH THE EARTH. 

Venus, the next in order from the Sun, and of the second 
class, is 7,600 miles in diameter, and the period of its rotation 
is performed in twenty -three hours twenty-one minutes, in- 
clined to the plane of its orbit under a small angle; while the 
Earth is more distant from the Sun, and classed with Ve- 
nus is greatly inclined, thereby receiving as much light inside 
as Venus; it being designed, in the difference to equalize the 
light of each, in respect to the difference of their distance from 
the Sun. 

Venus is remodeled from its primitive state on the same 
principle of the Earth, yet unlike it in relation to the Moon, 
as the Sun governs all the material machinery of the planet 
by attraction, one part and motion corresponding with the 
other, in conjunction to the Sun instead of the Moon. This 
would bring the inner worlds on a standard with the Earth, 
they passing around the centre of Venus in twenty-three hours 
and twenty-one minutes, in conjunction to the Sun, caused by 
the rotation of the outer division or crust in the same time. 
The rotation of all the material machinery corresponding with 
the outer division like the Earth, the second to twelve hours, 
and the third to six. 

The primitive diameter of Venus would fall to less than 
four thousand mile3. 



THE EARTH. 

The Earth, the next in order from the Sun, and of the sec- 
ond class with Venus, is 8,000 miles in diameter, with a rota- 
tion on its axis once in twenty -four hours, inclined under an 



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angle of about sixty degrees, thereby receiving as much light 
inside as Venus, although further from the Sun. The Earth 
is formed like Venus in respect to the inner worlds and their 
diameters; the motions of dKfe part corresponding with the 
other in conjunction to the Moon instead of the Sun, like Ve- 
nus* The diameter of the Earth in its primitive state would 
fall below 4,000 miles, the same as Venus, they being formed 
and fashioned at the same time. And it would follow that the 
inner worlds were composed of, or in a great measure, of the 
heavier materials, such as gold, silver, iron and lead, and other 
weighty matter, the lightest being all outside on the outer di- 
vision. 

Note.— Fig. 13— Form of the Pla.net Mars as compared with 
the Earth. — Mars is the fourth planet from the Sua, and it is of the 
first class with Mercury, formed and fashioned on the same plan, only of a 
lighter form, and in the piimitive state Mars would fall to 1,800 miles In 
diameter; like Mercury, revolving on an axis in thai state once in twelve 
hours, and in the remodeling it loosing time as to rotation according to its 
Increased size, maintaining the same velocity or' motion of miles an hour 
up to its full size of 4,000 miles in diameter, revolving on an axis once in 
twenty-four hours 39 minutes, leaving a planet in its centre ten or twelve 
hundred miles in diameter, revolving on an axis once in twelve hours iden- 
tical with its first primitive motion, and neaily in the centre of the planet, 
owing to its distance from the Sun. 

Mars is inclined to the eliptic in an angle of about 60 degrees, the poles 
being turned to the Sun in this angle, thereby receiving as much light in- 
side as Mercury. 

The Asteroids are the next in order from the Sun, and of the 
third class, formed from one planet either by a great convul- 
sion, or thrown to pieces by a violent rotation which formed 
them as they stand. 



FORM OF JUPITER, AS COMPARED WITH THE 
EARTH. 

Jupiter is the next in order from the Sun, and is of the fourth 
class with Saturn, and is about 90,000 miles in diameter, revolv- 
ing on an axis nearly perpendicular to the eliptic, once in nine 
hours and fifty-six minutes ; the poles being but very little 
turned to the Sun, while Saturn, more distant from the Sun, is 



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30 15 IBLE ASTR ON CM 

greatly turned, thereby receiving as much light inside as Jupiter. 
It would follow that Jupiter and Saturn were formed on the 
horizontal plane, different from the Earth, they being formed of 
four divisions and three sub-divisions each, including the divi- 
sion and sub-division of Saturn's rings, with a horizontal rota- 
tion ; the inner worlds passing around each other in the same 
time that they revolve horizontally with the planet once in ten 
hours. 

The space between the outer planet or crust and the inner 
worlds would be about 20,000 miles, and the space between 
them, on an average, of about eight thousand ^ or their collect- 
ive diameter to 60,000 miles, there being six separate worlds 
beside the outside one or crust. J 

The poles must be very large, at least 20,000 miles across, 
from one extreme edge to the other, in order to admit the light 
of the Sun ; and the principle of light through the poles would 
be such as to cause perpetual day, except for a short time, 
when the Sun crosses the Equator, and the principle of light 
highly reflective within the gigantic machinery of the inner 
worlds, the great circles of the colures that cut the worlds, ad* 
mitting the light besides the poles. 



FORM OF SATURN. 

FIRST GRADE. 

The next planet in order from the Sun is Saturn. It is 
71,000 miles in diameter, with a rotation on its axis once in ten 
hours and twenty-seven minutes* The inclination of its axis 
to the eliptic is about sixty degrees, thereby receiving as much 
light inside as Jupiter, although further from the Sun. 

Saturn is formed by four divisions and three sub- divisions, 
including the division and sub-division of the ring. The phi- 
losophy of the re modeling of the planet being represented in 
the plates according to the four different grades. The first 
grade represents the four divisions parallel with each other 
without the sub-divisions $ it .being classed with Jupiter, and 
formed the same, except the rings ; and, according to the first 
grade, the ring was formed out of or from the first division 
thrown of by rotation, as it lays parallel with the rest. 



BIBLE AST RON OMT ijl 



SECOND GRADE. 



Figaro 15 ; represents Saturn in the second grade, the 
process of the horizontal form, and the middle world re- 
versing horizontally with the planet; also, the suh-division of 
the second, and the first stage of the collapsing of the ring. 

The reversing of the middle world first, with a rotation in 
the direction of the poles, while the second has a violent rota- 
tion the other way, the two motions coming in contact cross- 
wise, and each one imparting the second motion to the other ? 
which would divide the second into two horizontal worlds with 
a rotation in the direction of the poles, and the horizontal rota- 
tion besides, in, or with the planet, or the outer crust every ten 
hours. 

THIRD GRADE. 

Figure 16, represents Saturn in the third grade ; and the sub- 
division of the third division on the same principle of the 
second, right and left, into two worlds, with a horizontal rota- 
tion in rank with the rest, corresponding in a perfect balance, 
being sustained by two different motions. Also, the second 
stage of the collapsing of the ring and its sub-division; being 
divided by the closing angles of the ring and the violent con- 
cussion of the collapse, thereby throwing one part in and the 
other out, and its material being sustained from being precipi- 
tated upon the planet by rotation, until it was formed into two 
rings, with a separation of a few hundred miles, between 
them, revolving on an axis every ten and a half hours. 

FOURTH GRADE. 

The fourth plate represents Saturn in the fourth grade and 
in full form, with its horizontal ring and seven moons. 

The whole space occupied by the inner worlds, or their col- 
lective diameters would be about 35,000 or 40,000 miles, and 
the average space between them about 8,000, and between 
them and the outside division or outer crust, 15,000 or 20,000 
miles. 

The principle of the indefinite reflection of the Sun's rays 
would be such as to cause perpetual day, and the light highly 
reflective through the poles, or colures, and the only principle 
on which light could be reflected, to light the inner worlds, at 
this distance from tha Sun. 

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32 BIBLE ASTRONOMY 

Remarks. — This theory might be objected to on the planets 
Saturn and Jupiter; and instead of their being open in their 
centres they are all solid and compact. Now, one might say 
that the violent rotation of the planets was worse than useless, 
and deny the existence of the ring altogether, for it was formed 
on this very plan. To suppose that they were solid through- 
out, with intelligent beings, of the size of an ordinary man, 
walking about upon them, weighing ten or fifteen tuns ! the 
planets being so many hundred times larger than the Earth, 
thereby imparting its multiplied attractions in proportion to its 
enormous size upon every thing or living thing with sufficient 
force to crush a solid rock, would be heresy. 

The next planets in order from the Sun is Herschel, or Ura- 
nus, and Neptune, and owing to their great distance from the 
Sun, the time of rotation is not known, they being of the fifth 
class, are formed different from the rest of the planets. 



COLLECTIVE ILLUSTRATION ON THE SOLAR SYS- 
TEM. 

There is something very singular in relation to the most dis- 
tant planet of each of the respective classes; they all being 
greatly inclined in the same angle to the eliptic, while the axis 
of the nearest to the Sun is but little inclined. 

Again : In relation to the northern and southern hemispheres, 
the one that contains the most attractive matter, the pole of 
that hemisphere would be turned to the Sun in its perihelion 
distance, and the lightest in the aphelion, like the earth ; and 
the greater the difference, the greater the angle. The northern 
hemisphere of the Earth containing the most land or attractive 
matter, and being the longest exposed to the Sun's attraction, is 
turned in the eliptic in an angle of sixty degrees ; and in its 
perihelion, the inner worlds would be attracted north of the 
Equator, and when in the aphelion their equators would be 
parallel, the Sun attracting them south, and the greater quantity 
of attractive matter in the Northern Hemisphere sustaining them 
in an even, balance, while the inner worlds of Venus would 
pass the Equator north and south in its perihelion and aphelion 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY 33 

distances, vary slightly as their axes are not much inclined in 
the elliptic. In respect to the planets Mercury and Jupiter, the 
same way 5 Saturn and Mars would be like the Earth. 

The mean distances of the planets from the Sun is as fol- 
lows : Mercury, 36,000,000 miles ; Venus, 68,000,000 miles ; the 
Earth, 95,000,000 miles 5 Mars, 145,000,000 miles ; the Aste- 
roids, ten. in number, 254,000,000 miles 5 Jupiter, 415,000,000 
miles 3 Saturn, 900,000,000 miles 5 Uranus, 1,800,000,000 miles ( 
Neptune, 2,850,000,000 miles. 



ORGANIC ILLUSTRATION. 

The planets are not projections from the Sun, on the same 
principle of the divisions of a planet, or Saturn's ring. Neither 
the satellites of the primaries, or the Moon with the Earth, 
because it does not partake of the same elements, to wit : water 
and an atmosphere. 

Jupiter has four moons, Saturn seven, Uranus six — they be- 
ing all placed in their present position by the great architect in 
the day that they were created, and made, and set in the firma- 
ment of the heaven, together with the planets ; the Sun, planets 
and satellites, all at the same time in their primitive states — they 
being organized afterwards, or re-modeled. 

They ail revolve around the sun from west to east, all nearly 
on the same plane, and the Sun perpendicular to the same on its 
axis, once in twenty-five and a half days — all the solar system 
turning together from west to east like an immense wheel, in 
different periods of time. 



THE SUN. 



The Sun is the centre of the solar system, and the great con- 
trolling power. It is 800,000 miles in diameter, revolving on 
an axis once in twenty-five days; and considering its slow rota- 
tion for so large a body, it is hard to conjecture what kind of 
form it possesses, in relation to its physical organization, or 
what it is that could sustain its ponderous attractions, unless it 



34 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

is some hiden velocity connected with the "body, or its mac he- 
nism, which might be inferred from the inconceivable velocity 
of some of its spots at certain times; and instead of its being a 
solid body, it is a gigantic world of revolving machinery, be- 
yond the comprehension of man, as w T ell as the planets, only 
as showing very simple and reasonable grounds why it is so, 
for they may be vastly different and even more complicated, 
most asuredly; for they are not solid bodies, bvi, each one a gi- 
gantic machine suitable for the enjoj^ment of intelligent beings, 
and in the depths of the starrey heavens there is every con- 
ceivable variety of mechanism, for the glory of one star differs 
from another; nor are those wonders for us to know in this life, 
but to search and know in tli£ world to come. 



THE EARTH IN ITS SEVENTH GRADE, 

In Revelations: — "And I saw a new Heaven and a new 
Earth; for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed 
away; and there was no more sea. 

2. And I John, saw the holy city New Jerusalem,, coming; 
down from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for 
her husband. 

3. "And I heard a great voice out of Heaven, saying behold 
the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with 
them, and they shall be His people, and God himself shall be 
with them, and be their God. 

4. "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;; and 
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, nei- 
ther shall there be any more pain;, for the former things are 
passed away. 

5. " And He that sat upon the throne said ; Behold, I make 
all things new; And he said unto me : Write, for these words 
are true and faithful. 

6. " And he said unto me : It is done. I am Alpha and 
Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that 
is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 

7. 
be his God, and he shall be my son. 



11 1 B L E A STRONO M Y . 35 

8. * But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable 
and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, 
and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burnetii 
with fire and brimstone; which is the second death." 

It appears from the first verse, that there is to be a new OT-» 
der of things; a new Heaven and a new Earth; for the first 
Heaven and the first Earth passed away. 

Revelations, ch. xx, v. 11: — "And I saw a great white 
throne ; and him that sat on it ; from whose face the Earth 
and the Heaven fled away; and there was found no place for 
them." 

All this has reference to the changes of the present form of 
the Earth alone; the great Judgment Day in which all things 
connected with the whole world is to be destroyed; a collapse 
of the Earth, in which the heavens that are inside of it is to 
pass away with a great noise — a state void and without form. 
Then God shall raise it again in a more glorious form — a new 
Earth and a new Heaven in place of the old one — and in it the 
great city New Jerusalem, 12,000 furlongs square. »Now, is 
this great city to be on the outside of the Earth, according to 
the old superstitions ? Would it bare its weight ? Would it 
if it was a solid body? It would not. Would it not reach 
hundreds of miles beyond the atmosphere? Would it not 
change the axis, it being altogether on one side ? It would. 
Therefore it is to be in the midst of the Heaven in the Earth 
in its new form. If it is not a description of the whole world, 
according to the 21st chapter of Revelations, garnished with 
all manner of precious stones ; each part and division of it be- 
ing diverse one from the other in its several foundations, mov- 
ing in all that imposing grandeur of glittering worlds in its 
mechanism, reflecting the glories of the immortal city, lighted 
by the glory of God and of the Lamb. " And the nations of 
them which are saved shall walk in the light of it," &c. 

Again : Is it possible for the people of God to be happy in 
the Earth in its present form? It is; for they shall reign 
with Christ a thousand years in the great millenium day which 
is to come. Therefore how much more happy shall they be 
in the great city New Jerusalem, and of God and the Lamb^ 
and the Earth in its new form. 

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36 BIBLE ASTEONOMI, 

5. i: And he that sat upon the throne said, behold I make 
all things new. 

7. " He that overcometh, shall inherit all things ; but the 
fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, 
and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, 
shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and 
brimstone, which is the second death," 



A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, ACCORD- 
ING TO PROMISE. 

Second Peter, 3d ch. 10 v.-— « But the day of the Lord will 
come as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall 
pass away with a great noise; (the heavens in the Earth,) and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The Earth also, 
(the whole Earth,) and the works that are therein shall be 
burned up, (or formed into one mass, void, and without form.) 

12. " Looking for, and hastening unto the coming of the 
day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire, shall be dis- 
solved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. (Now, 
it will be hundreds of years before this tvill come to pass.) 
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heav- 
ens and a new Earth, wherein dweileth righteousness," (or all 
happiness in the Earth in its new form.) 

It may not be altogether foreign to consider the great leading 
abominations that sink and degrade the world. First, that of 
adultery, the worst of ail abominations. The aatideluvians 
were corrupted in this; for they were not perfect in their gene- 
ration, except Noah. Moreover they were drunken and de- 
bauched ; even Noah was not perfect in this; for the first 
thing thought of was to plant a vineyard, and to drink the 
wine after the flood. 

Genesis, 6 ch. 12 v. — •" And God looked upon the Earthy 
and behold it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way 
upon the Earth. 

13. il And God said unto Noah: The end of all flesh is come 
before me ; for the Earth is filled with violence through them; 
and behold I will destroy them with the Earth." 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 37 

Also the Sodomites corrupted themselves in the same way 
after the flood. Moreover they had it sanctioned by a kind of 
religion like the Mormons ; for there was a remnant of them 
that sprung up after the fall of Sodom, and they even built 
houses near the temple where they wove hangings for the 
grave ; and King Josiah broke down their houses and destroyed 
them, the Jews being taught of God to abhor this very thing. 

For illustration, read the 19th and 20th chapter of Judges, 
in which there was one whole tribe destroyed and 65,000 men 
in one single case, for they were very careful to put such evils 
out of the land 5 the mother of all abominations. 

Also, the Latter Day Saints, or Mormons, and there Salt 
Lake is identically the Dead Sea ; and there Jordan, the great 
river, and city of the modern Sodom; and everyone that join- 
eth himself unto them is a Sodomite, neither shall they escape 
the destruction of Gomorrah, for if they do not get their just 
deserts in this respect, they will get it in another, or breed 
them with the States. 

Second : The revival of sorcery, or spiritual rappings, is 
identical to that of the old times, only not so far along in the 
art. It was notorious of the Egyptians at the time of Moses, 
the sorcerers or magicians could do any kind of a miracle, and 
this was a law of Pharaoh, for they could change a rod into a 
serpent, turn water into blood, change dust into lice, and when 
Moses and Aaron came before Pharaoh w^ith their request, 
they were required to show a miracle to establish their claim, 
that being done, the sorcerers were called to know if there was 
anything extraordinary in this, and being called, performed 
the same miracles, therefore their request was rejected; and it 
was the same w T ay with the miracle of blood, and of frogs, but 
of the lice they could not perform these aucustomed miracles ; 
then the magicians said unto Pharah, this is the finger of God, 
therefore, Pharah hardened his heart, neither would he let the 
people go ; moreover God hardened his heart in order that he 
might compel that ha^ty king to drink the cup which he had 
filled to himself and ihM corrupt nation to the very dregs, to 
punish them for their sorceries ; and the Israelites said let us 
go, least we sacrafice the abomination of the Egyptians ; God 
turning all their sorceries into foolishness, and destroyed them 
und their abominations. This is one great example of God's 



S3 BIBLE ASTRONOMY, 

hatred of such things, moreover, it showed a great depth of 
degradation in the Egyptians themselves in this respect. 

Again, after the Israelites passed into their own land, how 
many scores of nations were destroyed for this very thing with 
their adulteries, and at the time of king Saul, the witches and 
wizzards had become so notorious as to be able to raise the 
dead, therefore king Saul destroyed them,, and put their sorce- 
ries out of the land; yet after Saul was rejected of God on 
account of his clemency, and he was driven to straits, and God 
answered him not, he seeks for a familiar spirit, the most ob- 
scure one or all, for Saul had destroyed them except the witch 
of Endor and she raised up Samuel from the dead, and Saul 
communed with him. This is a second great example of God 
to show what they can do. Was Saul benefitted by the act? 
Will you seek the truth from the dead? Was Saul any better 
thanihe witch ? No, but worse, for he had disquieted a right- 
eous man ; therefore the righteous do not pollute themselves 
with the things of this world after death. And if a man seeks 
the truth from the dead, he seeks it from hell ; neither is he 
better than the medium, or the medium better than the devil ; 
and if they should perform miracles, or raise the dead, believe 
them not, nor pollute yourselves with their abominations, nor 
of the Sodomites, and their adulteries ; their plurality of wives 
being nothing to their Mormon orgies of diabolical abomina- 
tions. The glory of a people is their virtue in this respect, 
otherwise they are lower than the brutes — even an intellectual 
blemish. The glory of a man is the purity of his generations*. 
If a woman caused Adam's fall and of the world, how much 
more shall you drag them to hell, or raise them to heaven, to- 
gether* with yourselves; for in the seventh grade of the Earth, 
in its new form, and of that great day of final judgment shall 
the separation be, the perfect and the righteous to everlasting 
joys; and the corrupt and abominable to everlasting fire, while 
time shall roll its gigantic wheels in the distance of never- 
ending eternity. 

Is there a hell, then? Let all those wicked men that disbe- 
lieve this doctrine go to Heaven, as they expect, and there burn 
in the presence of the devouring purity of an Almighty God, 
forever. 

Again, the peculiarity of the Mormons, as a distinct anc 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. ., j 

separate people, their singular situation identical to that of the 
former Sodoin, and their rapid increase, connected with their 
abominations and prosperity, cannot be for any thing else only 
for their destruction, for what is not of God will come to 
naught, together with the abominations of the whole world, in 
the coming of the new times, which is not very far distant, 
from the signs of the times, that is to prepare the world for the 
great millenium day which is to come and continue one thou- 
sand years. 

Rev. chap, xx, v. 1 — " And I saw an angel come down from 
Heaven/' &c. 

Verse 2. " And he laid hold on the dragon/ 5 &c, a and ■ 
bound him a thousand y ears." 

Verse 3. " And cast him into the pit," &c, "that he should 
deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be 
fulfilled, and after that he must be loosed a little season," (in 
which the earth will rapidly become corrupted, after the for- 
mer and and antediluvian world, Gog and Magog ; and fire 
came down from God out of Heaven, and destroyed them. 

Then, after that, the seventh grade of the earth is to come in 
its new form. 

Read your Bible — the Wonder of all Wonders, and the Book 
of Books, (or the Light of the World.) Moreover, the first 
writing that appeared in the world w r as written on the two tab- 
lets of stone, by the hand of God. God learning Moses how 
to write 5 for the Egyptians knew nothing but hieroglyphics^ 
or the world before, that. 



COMPRESSION ATTRACTION. 

ILLUSTRATION OF THE FORCES THAT SUSTAIN UNIVERSAL 
; MATTER IN ITS PROPER PLACE. 

First : The principle of compression attraction, for illustra- 
tion, take the Earth with its two worlds, (or three, with its 
outside division,) ; Second : the power of attraction of the out- 
side one upon the second will not attract it in straight direct 
lines altogether, but its attractions w T ill extend around it in cir- 
cles or half-circles from the outside world around the second., 



40 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

thereby compressing it together on every side, therefore a 
greater velocity of rotation of the second is necessary to sus- 
tain it from a collapse and there is two kinds of attraction, 
material and magnetic, applied in two ways, direct and com- 
pression. Again, we will suppose that a comet should strike 
the Earth with sufficient force to break the outside division 
into fragments, w T ould it collapse or be precipitated upon the 
second division ? It would not ; but the separate portions 
would ride upon the wings of rotation and centrifugal force, 
and come together again. For illustration, suppose a like 
calamity should happen to Saturn's rings, and they revolve 
with the planet once in ten and a half hours, would they be 
precipitated upon it with this rotation. They would not ; nor 
would they in any case, unless the time of rotation was arrest- 
ed one-half, and even at that they would revolve a great many 
times before they w T ould reach the planet, and the process of 
collapsing would be slow ; and as the time of rotation would 
be quickened in proportion as the distance was lessened, for 
they would maintain the same velocity of 20,000 miles an hour 
in the collapse. Then both the ring and the planet will come 
together with the same motion of ten and a half hours rotation. 
The velocity of Saturn's equator is 20,000 miles an hour, and 
of the ring 40,000, a difference of 20,000 miles. Take off the 
20,000, and the ring and the planet will come together, with the 
same motion. Add the 20,000, and it will fetch it out again to 
its former place. This is what sustains them in their proper 
place, is the difference in the velocity of the ring over the 
planet of 20,000 miles an hour — a difference too great to be over- 
come by any agency that might be introduced— a foundation 
more subtle than adamant. Th«s rings being fastened to one 
place by the immense powers of attraction and centrifugal 
force, while the same powers that sustain the divisions of the 
Earth is more delicate, and that of Mercury and Mars exceed- 
ing delicate. The first square of attraction in a small planet 
diminishes very quick in the distance, while that of a larger 
one is very great. The difference in the sustaining power of 
Saturn's ring over the planet is about 20,000 miles an hour 5 of 
the first division of the earth over the second not far from 100 
miles an hour ; Venus is more delicate. Of Mercury and Mars 
it would be an even balance, or of Mars. Also the power of 



BIBLB ASTRONOMY 41 

motion of one part, or division of Saturn's ring over the other 
is very delicate and the power of separation very small. 

Thus is the solar system framed to the merest point of deli- 
cacy to that of the most gigantic sustaining powers. 



FRANKLIN INSIDE OF THE EARTH. 

Considering the mystery of the whereabouts of the long-lost 
Franklin, the great probability is, that he, being ignorant of the 
figure of the Earth, and through the eagerness of discovering, 
has got to the inside of it, and he could not miss the only chan- 
nel that leads to the polar regions. In beating his passage 
north, it would naturally lead him to the right place, and he, 
supposing at the same time that it led into a polar sea beyond, 
would of course pass into it in order to sail across the pole, 
when too late to return, for the place was difficult of access. 
They beheld, to their astonishment, the land on either side aris- 
ing in grandeur for miles beyond the clouds, for it was the 
polar gap formed by the flood. And they themselves going 
down to the lower regions of the bottomless pit, in their advent 
to the inner world, when to their utter astonishment ihey beheld 
the second and third heaven, with all their glory and grandeur 
of revolving worlds in the immense concave of the inner world 
on the one hand, and on the other they saw themselves sur- 
rounded by an army of polar projections hemming them in on 
every side. He then learns the wonders of the descending scale 
of worlds — the realizing of their everlasting doom, shut up in 
the impregnable walls of the Earth, and the towering heights 
of the polar projections, amid the fairy worlds on high ! ! 



INDEFINITE REFLECTION OF LIGHT. 

The principle of light indefinitely reflected inside of the 
Earth is very simple. The sun shining in at either pole alter- 
nately upon the convex sides, is highly reflected in a concen- 
trated form. First : the Sun's light falling upon the inside, 
through the pole in an oblique form, varying in length accord- 



42 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

kig the elevation of the Sun, from 1000 to 4000 miles, by 1200 
in width — a surface as large as the face of the moon — lighted 
direct from the Sun, which is reflected to every part of the 
Earth indefinitely, until it passes out of the poles — the Sun 
keeping it filled with light ; and as the distance is not far from 
one part to the other, it is highly reflected. For illustration, 
how much of the Sun's light do we receive from the moon by 
reflection? Ferhaps the one thousandth part; and the rest 
passes off into space. And yet for all that, how it dispels the 
darkness ; yet if we received all that the moon reflected would 
it not follow that it would not equal the light of the Sun. And 
this is the case inside of the Earth, for none of the Sun's rays 
escape, but all are reflected — not only reflected, but indefinitely 
reflected. Neither is there any deficiency of light in any of the 
planets of the solar system, but are lighted by a flood of light 
on the same principle inside, or there is a great deal to show 
that it is so. 



CURIOSITIES IN THE EARTH. 

It would follow that there was not much rain in the Earth, 
as the continents are greatly elevated, or wind, or storms, nei- 
ther very cold or hot, owing to the reflection of light, or the 
upper regions of the atmosphere, cold, from the same cause ; 
neither much water upon the second and third planet — as it 
nearly all arose with the first division, the water being all 
outside. 

It would follow that the Earth was filled with birds, beasts; 
and forests of timher, in all parts of it, and the seas with fish of 
all descriptions in them. 



NEBULA HYPOTHESIS. 

It has been suggested by some authors that worlds have been 
end are still being slowly evolved from primordial nebulssous 
masses by the gradual operation of the general forces, for in- 
stance that of Laplace, that "There is a multitude of shining 
nebulous masses now scattered throughout space, each of suffi- 



fc 1 B L H A S T It N U r .13 

nent extent to furnish the materials of a world, and some, per- 
haps, of systems of worlds. 

"That these masses present a long unbroken gradation from 
amass/' [without form and void,] to a perfect star ; that is. 
all the various stales in which a single nebulous mass would be 
during the period that it occupies in condensing from its first 
rude formless state into a finished globe. 

"That the universe, as it is, in be a the genera] and particu- 
lar features of it :. may be shown to be a natural 
mechanical cc. sequence of the hypothesis in question.-*' 

Now, the latter we deny as a false doctrine, and the former 

on the principle of mere antecedent, or consequence, and fit for 

nothing only to feed infidelity. To suppose even that this solar 

:-m alone was formed that way, on a whole, from one 

Ions mass, would it not follow that the planets would be 

like the Sun, together with the satellites, all luminous or dark 

all formed of the same mass. But this is not the 

case. The Sun being formed of different material from the 

planets, and the planets different in every respect from each 

other, also of the satellites ; showing that they are not formed 

of the same mass. Neither had they ever any connection with 

each other, because (hey do not partake of the same elements^- 

not even the Moon with the Earth, or the planets of each other, 

as the Sun of the planets. 



SECOND ILLUSTRATION OF THE TEXTS 6& 
GRADES OF THE EARTH. 

FIRST GRADE. 

'< In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 5> 
And of what? Of such things, and by such means as is beyond 
the comprehension of man. God forming it by the mighty 
hand of his power, and launched it into space, together with the 
whole solar system on the first day, with all their respective 
unorganized elements to form a glorious system of worlds. 
Moreover, this is the last system and the last world that God 
created and made in that vast calender ol successive worlds, 
neither will there be any more made until this Earth shall e- 
€eiva ita new form with its great city of twelve foundation^ 

5 



44 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

inhabited by its happy people, and it shall stand forever 5 then 
shall God raise up in hi? lofty habitation, and by the might of 
his mighty power, create and make a new system of worlds 
somewhere in the vast regions of his mighty kingdom ; for, 
saith the Lord, I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and 
the end, the eternal and the everlasting God, this will give you 
some idea of the infinity of Almighty- God, for the number of 
the stars i3 the number of his time by succession, neither is 
there any end. 

SECOND TEXT OR GRADE. 

On the second day, and in the second grade of the Earthy 
God remodeled it from its primitive form by raising its mate- 
rial from the depths, and forming it into three divisions or 
worlds of wonderful form, " in the day that God created the 
Heaven and the Earth and set the pillars of its balancing upon 
a sure foundation, when the morning stars sang together and 
all the sons of God shouted for joy ;" for God was at work on 
this mighty world. And on the third day God gathered the 
waters unto one place, and the dry land appeared, being 
weighed in a balance cf the one to the other, opposite a conti- 
nent outside to the one inside, sea against sea, island against 
island. And on the fourth day, the sun was fully organized 
and the planets to receive its light. 

O;- the fifth and sixth day, birds and beasts were made to 
increase, multiply ar j fill all the Earth, man also was made, 
and dominion was given him over all the Earth, and everything 
that moveth upon it. Now, if there are birds and beasts on the 
second and third divisions of the inner world, or anything use- 
ful, the dominion of man extends unto it. 



MAGNETIC ATTRACTION. — SECOND ILLUSTRA- 
TION. 

Magnetic attraction being a current according to the first 
illustration, is subject to many variations ; one is caused by the 
diurnal rotation of the Earth in conjunction with the inner 
worlds and their revolution around the Earth's centre 5 the 
width of the poles admitting of a small variation east or west, 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY 45 

as the main current flows in skewing in the direction of the 
worlds, and is greater as you go north ; and there is another va- 
riation that is yearly, that cannot be accounted for only as it 
might be connected with the yearly north and southing of 
the same. And still there is another variation caused from 
the immense polar projections varying the current east or west 
by the most direct course into the earth. Again there is an- 
other, according to the first illustration that is connected with 
the polar gap and the flood, and it is very decided. 



PHILOSOPHY OF LAFLAC'S THEORY ON NEBU- 
LOUS MASSES, OR BODIES, THROUGHOUT THE 
UNIVERSAL HEAVENS. 

It has been determined in most cases, by applying a telescope 
of high power, that nebulous masses are resolvable into small 
stars, and the nebulous appearance is the light of one star or 
sun upon the other, although a vast distance apart; and accord- 
ing to the theory in question, is that these masses are under a 
gradual process of condension from their first rude state to a 
perfect star. Now, no one will deny the magnitude of this 
expression, or a star thus formed, suffice it to say that the orbit 
of Neptune would not offer any comparison to the enormous 
diameter of a star formed in this way — stars or suns by ihe 
thousands, formed into one, or one star swallowing all crea- 
tion ! would show the absence of an Almighty God, or no God, 
and everything on the principle of accident. The appearance 
of a star in the midst of a nebulous mass is caused from the 
vision of the telescope through the long way of the mass, 
thereby bringing a greater number of stars within the same 
range, although a great distance apart. 



A NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH. 

FIRST TEXT. 

Re?., ch. xx., 2d vrs. " And I saw a great white throne, and 
Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavea 
fled away, and there was found no place for them." 



40 BIBLE ASTRONOHT- 

Now, this text has nothing to do with the heaven outside of 
the Earth, denominated the universal heavens, that extends to 
the stars, or beyond, which includes all thing, and it has and 
will stand forever, but to the Earth and the heaven inside of it. 

First. '-From whose face the Earth and the Heaven fled 
away." Now, if the Earth fled away, w r ould it not follow that 
it would take the second and third Heaven with it, or the Heav- 
en inside of it? Now, this is the interpretation: This world is 
to be destroj/ed by fire, and the Heaven inside of it, together 
with the present form, pass away. It is to be formed into a 
soft state again, and the forses that sustain it in its present 
place is to be destroyed. Even the water is to be changed into 
earth and formed into one mass, void and without form, simi- 
lar to its primitive state ; then shall God raise the dead from 
the dead, and the Earth in its new form — the righteous to ever- 
lasting joy, and the wicked to everlasting fire. 

SECOND TEXT. 

Revelations xxi, 1 : i: And I saw a new Heaven and a new 
Earth, for the first Heaven and the first Earth were passed 
rway, and there was no more sea." 10. " And he showed me 
that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of Heav- 
en," &c. 

Now, the first text shows that there is a Heaven in the Earth 
in its present form, and it is to pass away in the great judg- 
ment day ; and the second text shows the existence of a Heav- 
en in its new form, and a great city of twelve foundations gar- 
nished with all manner of precious stones ; and the city had no 
need of the sun, (it being in the Earth, or all the world) neth- 
er of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did light- 
en it, and the lamb is the light thereof, and the nations of the^i 
which are saved shall walk in the light of it, &c. 

27. " And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that 
defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or rnaketh 
a lie." 

Xxii, 15. " For without are dogs, and sorcerers, diid whore- 
mongers, and murderers, and idolators, and whosoever loveth 
and maketh a lie." 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY 47 

ILLUSTRATION OF THE EARTH. 

The Earth, in its new form, will be beautified in a high 
degree ; for illustration, read the 22d chapter of Revelations. 
And after it is thus formed and finished, it shall take its 
place in the great constellation of the Heavens, with all the 
solar system thus formed, and it shall stand forever ; then shall 
God in his power create a new system of worlds with a sun to 
give them light — some where in the universal Heavens — in the 
order of regular succession. 

This is the generations of the starry Heavens in the day that 
God set them in the firmanent of the Heaven to give light upon 
the Earth, and not only upon this world, but all others that 
will be made m all parts of the Heavens hereafter, in the regu- 
lar order of succession. 



THE NEW TIMES. 

It would follow that if the world was left to its own fate it 
would get worse, for what do we see but the most formidable 
enemies to the Word of God : First, infidels, because they have 
got a better philosophy $ second, sorcerers, because they repu- 
diate all the Bible except Christ and the Prophets, only as me- 
diums like themselves ; third, Mormons, because they have got 
a Bible of their own : fourth, of the Catholics, because they 
chrush the Bible with a vengeance. Yet, can the strength of 
the Bible be shown without those enemies, for it shall grind 
them into powder in its onward march to the ends cf the Earthy 
introducing its new elements, and wonders, but Satan will 
dispute every inch of ground that it gains, deceiving the 
people through a horde of sorcerers and miracles, when noth- 
ing else will do to corrupt the land ; but they will not succeed, 
for the righteous will cleave unto God and reject the evil, 
the Bible being unto them as a cloud by day and a pillar 
of fire by night, to guide them through the world to the 
great millenium day, while the sorcerers, for they have 
already begun their work, and the devil shall be cast into 
the pit ; but this is not the kingdom of Satan in full power in 
the world, but the great anti-Christ, the feet of the image that 



4M BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

Neberchadnezzer saw— the great city of the ancient and mod- 
ern Babylon, the seat of the beast with seven heads and ten 
horns, on whom the woman satteth with the filthiness of her 
abomination—yet hit whom it would hit, the woman is on the 
Eaith now and the beast in full power 5 the seven mountains 
and the woman that satteth thereon, is the city and her abomi- 
nations, and that of the woman and the beast is the power of 
the great city of Babylon, in the feet of the image, and through 
the abundance of her riches is to flourish with great power be- 
fore her fall. The seven hilled city, the city of Babylon, for 
thus saith the Lord : " he that is unjust let him be unjust still, 
and he which is filthy let him be filthy still 5- and he that is ho- 
ly, let him be holy still." They will have their own way, the 
want of Christian charity, neither have they repented of their 
abominations. 

The consummation of all these things, the prophecies of the 
Bible shortly to be fulfilled from the signs of the times, will be 
beyond all comprehension, one wonder rolling in upon the 
other in rapid succession, down to the millenium day, and its 
reign of one thousand years ; then Satan, again, after that. Gog 
and Magog, and the end of the world in its present form. 

12. " And behold, I come quietly, and my reward is with 
me, to give every man according as his works shall be." 

13. "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the 
first and the last." 

14. " Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they 
may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through 
the gates into the city." 

15. " For without are dogs and sorcerors, and whoremong- 
ers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and. 
maketh a lie.." 

Habitual lying is the lowest of all rakish practices. 



THE EARTH IN ITS NEW FORM. 

Now there is nothing in the Bible to show that the Earth is 
to be destroyed for two or three thousand years to come, and 
then it will be in its seventh grade, the form thereof being 
t hanged ;. neither will the stars of Heaven fall, according ts> 



BIBL E ASTRO N OUT. 4$ 

the old superstition, because some of them have stood millions 
of age.?, and will stand forever, while the Earth has only stood 
a few thousand ; nor will there any stars fall, only such as he- 
long to the solar system, or the planets, and then onlya change 
of form like the Earth, a collapse, or fall of the present forms. 
The stars belonging to another system, that having nothing to do 
with this, will not be destroyed ; nor is there anything in the 
Bible to prove that they will fall ; but of the Catholic world, 
the fall of Babylon, which will come t< rtly, togel 

w ith the fall of despotism, and the coming of the new times, 
which will continue for some time, to prepare the world for 
the millenium day ; then after that the end of the world in it* 
present form, and the new Heaven and the new Earth. 

In Revelations : w Blessed are they that do the command of 
God, that they may have right to the tree of life, and en: ■ 
through the gates into the city." 

u And he shewed me a pure river of the water of life, clear 
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the 
Lamb." 

••' In the midst of the street of it, and on the other side of the 
river, was there the tree of life, which bore all- manner of 
fruits, and yielded its fruits every month ; and the leaves of 
the tree were for the healing of the nations, (or the healing of 
their infirmities.) and they too shall praise God that liveth 
forever and ever. 

(The tree of life in the Earth and in its new form./ 



SORCERY, OR SPIRITUAL RAPPIXG. 

If the doctrines of this sect in respect to the seven different 
ttates, from hell up to heaven, be true, with all their other 
abominations, then the Bible is a lie. Again : If one believe 
any other than the Bible, let him be accursed, though he wero 
an angel from Heaven ; we have no right to believe anything 
they do, even if one arose from the dead, or to have anything 
to do with them, unless we want to sell ourselves into the fa- 
vor of the Devil, and endure the everlasting displeasure of Al- 
mighty God. Though they should raise the dead and perform 
miracles, or one from Heaven should confirm everything they 



50 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

do, believe them not. For a person having friends in Heaven, 
and then go to seek the truth from the dead, was seeking affinity 
with Satan. Nor are they better than the sorcerers themselves. 
It is low and degrading an abomination in the sight of God, and 
stands under the weight of Heaven's bitterest curse. The 
righteous do not perform miracles — the Bible is their strong 
tower — nor will there be any only from sorcerers, from the 
Devil, to deceive the world; miracles will not add anything to 
the Word of God, but the fulfillment of its prophecies, its 
teachings and precepts are our guide. 

Again, for a person to get up before a crowd of people, and 
philosophise on the elements of spiritual knocking for the pur- 
pose of making a display of great learning, and leaving off 
right where he commenced, is ridiculous. The Devil is the 
element, and might be called animal and spiritual magnetism, 
composed of two elements, the spiritual element, acting with 
the corrupt element of animal magnetism, of men unto evil 
works, there being a connection of the two together, a perfect 
medium, and the art can be cultivated to any extent, as the Bi- 
ble shows even to the performing of miracles, and other abom- 
inations, called sorcery \ moreover, it attaches ifself to all the 
human race to draw them to Hell. And there is another ele- 
ment that is very powerful in its operation, and it is from 
Heaven, acting upon the other the same as water acts upon 
fire. According to the will of the man, however, destroying 
the works of the Devil while living, if done at all, and if not, 
the work of Satan, is fully accomplished, and the soul lost for- 
ever, there being no middle states about it, or purgatory, ac- 
cording to the teachings of the Catholics or sorcerers. 

Yet there may be seven grades or spheres to the sorcerers* 
spirit world, but they are all in Hell, from the first down to the 
seventh sphere, and that is far hotter than all the others put 
together. 

This, also, is the case with purgatory, and all those that be- 
lieve in the doctrine, when they get there will find themselves 
in the rich man's hell, and a gulf between that and Heaven, by 
which no man never did pass, nor never will. (Luke, ch. xvi.) 
All those persons that are sold to these delusions are as sure of 
hell as though they were in it j it bearing a good face and ap- 
parent qualities, but the snare is hid. And it behooves the 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 61 

Protestant Churches to keep clear of this infectious disease. 
Even if it is thy right eye, pluck it out, cast it from thee, go 
not within its polluted atmosphere, nor of the Sodomite. It 
not the whole world becoming corrupted by the power of Sa- 
tan? Chose ye whom ye will serve, for this is the day of the 
great sword and wrath of Almighty God. God giving them 
great delusions that they might believe a lie and go to destruc- 
tion, as they would not believe his word. 



THE BIBLE. 

Whatsoever bindeth the Bible bindeth the intellects of men, 
and oppress both soul and body. Confine it like a criminal, 
with the fetters and chains of Babylon, and it will break th«mi. 
Crush it with the weight of your gigantic power, and it will 
grind you into powder, for it smote the image and it will smite 
the kingdom of Satan. 

It contains all that is necessary for us to know for our hap- 
piness in this world and the world to come, and its moral teach- 
ings a fool need not err therein. And it will go on conquering 
and to conquer, until all shall be eclipsed in the great milleni- 
*m day. It will triumph over all its enemies. 



In considerations of the subjects here treated upon, there 
has been a great many proofs left out that might have been 
introduced, but the writer being a journeyman carpenter, and 
constantly employed to make a living, and as the subjects re-, 
quired great study, it was impossible to consider them all for 
the want of time, the only time allotted to this work was of 
evenings. Even the subjects introduced are but briefly illus- 
trated, and some of them too much so, perhaps, to be excusa-- 
ble ; one, for instance, that of identifying the Mormons as Sod- 
omites, from their peculiarities in. this respect; yet it is very 
certain that they have no others, and as they are at enmity 
with ail the world, even to desperation, and 'that to in their 
weakness, what will they do in their strength; their isolation, 
religion, laws, and notions being diverse from all others, ex- 
cept the Catholic Church, in some respects: the Mormons, 
for their plurality of wive3 ; sanctioned by a kind of a mar- 



52 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

riage, while the priesthood of the Catholic Church discard mar- 
riage, even of one wife, according to the Bible; the former be- 
ing more open in their abominations, while the latter is closeted ; 
the first for their ocular confession, only as Gods and it is the same 
way with the latter or Babylon, as Gods over their members. 

The peculiarities of the sorcerers and their seven different 
states in the spiritual world, is nearly identical to that of the 
purgatory of the Catholics; six cf the different states of the for- 
mer being preparatory to entering into the seventh and the lat- 
ter of purgatory, and from that state into Heaven, the former 
and the latter being from the same source, for what is not of 
God is of the Devil, there being no authority for it in the Bi- 
ble, but against the peculiarities of the Mormons, and the 
sorcerers to that of the abominations of Babylom, cannot be 
attributed to anything else, only that the cup of'the latter is 
full to overflowing ; and their corruption has appeared among 
them in a kind of a mild form, Brigham Young, being Pope 
and King, a spiritual and temporal dynasty — a kind of opposi- 
sition, a [monopoly — belonging to the Catholic God, giving 
them great delusions that they should believe a lie, and be 
damned. And Catholics included, for they all three make pre- 
tensions to miracles, thereby deceiving the world through their 
pretensions and blasphmy. 



RISE AND FALL OF BABYLON. 

FIRST VOICE. 

Daniel, chap, ii., 31st verse. " Thou, O King, sawest and be- 
hold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was 
excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible. 

32d verse. u This image's head was of fine gold, his breast 
and his arm, of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass." 

33. u His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part clay." 

34. " Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out with hands, 
which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, 
and broke them to pieces." 

ILLUSTRATION. 

First, Babylon or grade head of gold 5 second, Babylon, or 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 53 

grade Meed or Persian, breast and arms of silver; third, 
Babylon or grade Grecian, belly and thighs of brass ; fourth, 
Babylon or grade is the Roman, legs of iron 5 and the feet part 
'of iron and part of clay, or fifth grade, partly strong and part- 
ly broken. This is the first fall of the temporal power of the 
great Babylon ; neither repented they that they should not 
petuate their temporal grades of tyranny down to the seventh, 
by uniting the spiritual destiny with the temporal powers 
in the type of the great red dragon with seven heads and 
ten horns, and his seat was perpetuated in the beast of seven 
heads and ten horns, down to the seventh, by the kings or the 
ten horns of the beast. The iron in the feet of the image would 
answer for the strong arm of the temporal power. And the 
clay to the spiritual power of Babylon, and that great city, the 
city of Rome, that devoured the whole earth in perpetuating 
her legends of tyranny, down to the present day, with all her 
spiritual corruption. ■ And the stone that was cut out without 
hands is Christ and his kingdom, which shall break in pieces 
and consume all those kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. — 
Most assuredly shall it destroy those kings, for there were ten 
toes to the image, which answer for the ten horns of the beast 
or ten kings. 

42d verse. (i And as the toes of the feet were part iron and 
part clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly bro* 
ken f 9 or, united in the spiritual power of the beast, and broken 
in the temporal, as the ten kings, and they give their power 
unto the beast. 

Again, the great image was divided in the thighs, or the Gre- 
cian Empire, but united in the belly, and also of the Roman in 
the legs of iron right and left, and of the feet a new element is 
mixed with the iron, and in the ten toes we see the Roman Em- 
pire split up into petty kingdoms, mixed with the same element 
united with the iron, or one mighty empire of spiritual and tem- 
poral despotism of the present day that has descended in a 
chain of regular grades in the type of the great image, which 
image is to be destroyed. 

RISE AND FALL OF BABYLON — SECOND VOICE. 

Vision of Daniel, chapter vii., 2d verse. "Daniel spake 
and said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four 
wi nds of the Heaven strove upon the great sea." 



54 BIBLH ASTEOKOMT 

3. u And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse 
one from another." 

4. " The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings." 

5. iC And behold another beast, a second, like unto a bear." 

6. Ci After this, I beheld, and lo ! another, like a leopard." 

7. " Af ter this I saw in the night vision, and behold a fourth 
beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly ; and it 
had great iron teeth $ it devoured and broke in pieces, and 
stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from 
all the beast tbat were before it, and it had ten horns," (which 
is ten kings.) 

8. " I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among 
them another little horn, before whom there were three of the 
first horns plucked up by the roots ; and behold, in this horn 
were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great 
things." 

9. " I beheld till the thrones or kings were cast down, and the 
ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white assnow," &c. 

11. ee l beheld then because of the voice of the great words 
which the hern spake 5 I beheld even till the beast was slain, 
and his body destroyed and given to the "burning flame." 

1:2. "As concerning the rest of the beast they had their do- 
minion taken away," &c. 

19. " Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which 
wa3 diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose 
teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass ; which devoured, 
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet." 

20. " And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the 
other which came up, and before whom three fell ; even of 
that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great 
things," &c. 

21. "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, 
and prevailed against them." 

23. " Thus he said, the fourth beast shall be the fourth king- 
dom upon Earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, 
and shall devour the whole- Earth, and shall tread it down and 
break it in pieces." 

24. a And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings 
tbat shall arise 5 and another shall arise after them, and he shall 
be diverse from the first (or spiritual) and he shall subdue 
tfcese kinp." 



BIBLE ASTRONOMT. §5 

25. " And he shall speak great words against the Most High, 
and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to 
change times and laws ; and they shall be given into his hand 
until a time and times and the dividing of time."' 

ILLUSTRATION. 

Now, this needs no explanation for it explains itself. The 
fourth kingdom being the Roman Empire, and the ten horns 
shows how the kingdom was broken up into an indefinite num- 
ber of kings or kingdoms, and the little horn that was diverse 
from these kings is the Catholic Church that arose out of this 
very identical kingdom, and is a part of the beast ; and as there 
were three horns that fell before it, it shows the power of the 
horn over the kings of the Earth, and the horns that stood 
out of this kingdom together with the little horn formed the 
great whole. 

Again, this little horn that arose into great power, persecu- 
ted the saints of the Most High, and they were given into his 
hand for a time and times and the dividing of time, which is 
1260 years down to Luther, and the same persecution is rep- 
resented in the type of the great red dragon and the beast after 
him against the early christians down to Luther. 

BABYLON THIBD VOICE. 

In Revelations, 12th chapter, 1st verse : " And there appear- 
ed a great wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the sun, 
and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of 
twelve stars.*' 

2. (i And she being with child, cried, travailing in birth, and 
pained to be delivered." 

3. "And there appeared another wonder in Heaven, and be- 
hold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and 
peven crowns upon his head." 

4. " And his tail drew the third part of the stars of Heaven 
and did cast them to the Earrh 5 and the dragon stood bef ore, 
the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour 
her child as soon as it was born." 

5. '• And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all 
nations with a rod of iron, and her child was caught up unto 
God, and to his throne." 



gQ B I B L EJ ASTROJSOMr. 

6. "And the woman fled into the wilderdess where she hath 
a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a 
thousand two hundred and three score days," (or 1260 years.) 

13. a And when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth , 
he persecuted the woman, which brought forth the man child." 

14. cc And to the woman were given two wings of a great 
eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, 
where she is nourished for a time, and times and a half a time, 
from the face of the serpent," (which is 1260 years,) 

ILLUSTRATION. 

The woman aad her seed or the seed of the woman is Christ 
and his Church represented in its primitive state, or as soon as 
it was born. And the dragon is the same one that Daniel saw, 
having ten horns like the fourth beast or kingdom, or Roman 
Empire, and of her power or the power that arose out of her, 
of Satan's kingdom ; and the seven heads is the seven hilled 
city of Rome, and the body is the empire, and the ten horns 
are the kingdoms that arose out of her, forming one great 
whole; and the dragon persecuted the woman or the saint3 
of the Most High, or the primitive christians, and she fled into 
the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a 
time and times and a half time, from the face of the servant, or 
a thousand two hundred and three score days, a day for a year,, 
1260 years, down to Luther. The same time that was repre- 
sented by Daniel, or the second type of the persecution of the 
little horn, 1260 years to Luther, when Christianity was re- 
vived again by preaching the Gospel, which ended that part of 
the vision. 

And the dragon was wrath with the woman, -and went to 
make war with the remnent of her seed, which keep the com- 
mandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ, 
(or the Bible) and the dragon made war with them and the 
testimony which they have. The dragon is the fifth destiny of 
the four that fell before it. The lion, the bear, the leopard, 
the beast, and the dragon fell from Heaven. 

BABYLON IN FULL POWER — FOURTH VOICE. 

Revelations, chap, xiii., 1st verse. " And I stood upon the 
§and of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having 



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seven heads and ten horn ?, and upon his herns ten crowns, 

and upon his heads the name of blasphemy." 

2. "And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his 
feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of 
a lion ; and the dragon give him his power, and his seat, and 
great authority." 

ILLUSTEATIONS. 

Now, this beast, or dragon, is the same as that represented 
in the third voice, only a change in the destiny, and the beast 
that arose out of the sea is the Roman Catholic Church. And 
whereas there was but one power, there were ten, or ten 
kings, and they gave their power unto the beast, moreover, the 
dragon before the beast give him his power. The power of 
the ten horns, and the beast before him, for the ten horns of 
each are the same, therefore the dragon gave his power unto 
the beast, his seat and great authority, the seat which is Rome. 

Again, the dragon persecuted the early christians, or the 
seed of the woman and the little horn before him, because there 
was none else to do it, and the bea3t after him, because hepo£- 
sessed all power, and he made war with the saints 1260 years, 
and the dragon before him, first, because the dragon give him 
his seat; second, because the dragan persecuted the early 
christians, and the beast after him 1260 years, and they de- 
voured the whole earth. 

3d verse. " And I saw one of his heads as it were, wounded 
to death. n 

Luther was the one that wounded the beast and this ended 
the 1260 years; Babylon could not prevail against the chris- 
tians, after that to put them down. 

" And his deadly wound was healed, and all the world won- 
dered after the beast." 

4. a And they worshipped the dragon which give power unto 
the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, (this iden- 
tifies them both a3 the same) who is like unto the beast? who 
is able to make war with him V 7 

5. * And there was given unto him a mouth, speaking great 
things and blasphemy." 

This is the voice of the little horn and the greatwords which 
the horn spake ; first, the little horn is the type of little good, 



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the abomination of desolation ; second, the great words or 
things is the great power both temporal and spiritual, the great 
See, the Pope, the source of all power, both in Heaven and 
Earth, I possess the keys of Saint Peter, of Hell and Heaven, 
I can forgive sin or retain them, and issue my bulls ; third, 
and whereas, there were three horns that were plucked up by 
the roots, it shows the power of the horn over the kings, and 
power was given unto him to continue forty and two months, 
(or 1260 days or years down to Luther, from the affinity of 
the dragon with the beast or the first Pope.) 

6. " And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to 
blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell 
in Heaven." 

7. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints 
and to overcome them, and power was given him over all kin- 
dreds and tongues and nations." 

SECOND TYPE, OR ANTI-CHRIST. 

11. " And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, 
and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon." 

12. " And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast be- 
fore him, and causeth the Earth and them which dwell there- 
in to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed, 
(which is that period of time since Luther.) 

18. " Here is wisdom, let him that hath understanding count 
the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his 
number is six hundred and three score and six," (or full time 
of the seven grades.) 

Babylon's first fall — fifth voice. 

Revelations, chap, xiv., 6th verse. " And I saw another 
angel fly in the midst of Heaven, having the everlasting gospel 
to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth, and to every na- 
tion, and kindred, and tongue, and people," (Now this angel 
was Luther, and them that preached the gospel, the Bible, and 
the fetters and chains which it breaked when it appeared in 
the world, wounding the beast.) 

7. " Saying with a loud voice, fear God, and give glory to 
him, for the hour of his judgment is come, and worship him 
that made Heaven, and Earth, and the sea, and the fountains 
of waters." (Illustration: instead of the beast.) 



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B. '' And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon la 
len, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations 
drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication." (Illus- 
tration : fell wounded under the blows of Luther and his 
preaching.) 

0. "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud 
voice, if any man worship the beast and his image, and receive 
bis mark in his forehead, or in his head." § 

10. a The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, 
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indig- 
nation, and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in 
the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the 
Lamb." 

11. (i And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever 
and ever; and they have no rest day nor night, who worship 
the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of 
his name," (because his power is in danger.) 

" 14. " And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and upon 
the cloud one sat like unto the son of man, having on his head 
a golden crown, and in hi3 hand a sharp sickle," (or the ref- 
ormation of the world.) 

DESCRIPTION OF BABYLON — SIXTH VOICE. 

Revelations, chap, xxvii,, 1st verse, " And there came on'§ 
of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with 
me, saying unto me, come hither, I will show unto thee the 
judgment of the great whore that sittith upon many waters," 
(or the power of many kings.) 

2. " With whom the kings of the Earth have committed for- 
nication, and the inhabitants of the Earth have been made 
drunk with the wine of her fornication." 

3. w So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness? 
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of 
names of blasphemy, having seven neads and ten horns. 

ILLUSTRATION. 

Now, this beast is connected in the same dynasties of ih.4 
rest, only a change for the dragon with seven heads and ten 
horns, give his power unto the beast, which also had seven 
heads and ten hornSj and his seat, which is Rome, identified in 



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all the dynasties, cue confirming his power and authority to the 
other, being identified in all their great aims in treading down 
the world and the early Christians, there being no one else to 
do it, for they possessed all power, treading down the whole 
Earth, Rome, therefore, being the great city of the power of 
Babylon, and the seat of the beast of the Roman Catholic 
Church, and the ten horns being great kings that give their 
power and support unto the Pope, or beast, it being absolutely 
necessary, for she could not stand by her own power in her 
corruptions, although it was very great; neither was there any 
virtue, merit, or anything good in her to build her up, there- 
fore committed she fornication with those kings on the one 
hand, and on the other the exercise of her lordly power, and 
every abomination, chrushing the world with the weight of 
her gigantic power, and actually existing by combined power 
and not by merit alone. 

4th verse. "And the woman was arrayed in purple and 
scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and 
pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations," 
(or Babylon displaying her abominations in golden cups, she 
taking care to make the outside look well.) 
JU 5. *' i? And upon her forehead was a name written: mystery, 
Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations of 
the earth." (This is a description of Babylon and her close- 
ted abominations included. ) 

6. " And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the 
saints, (because she made war with them,) and with the blood 
of the martyrs of Jesus, (because she persecuted thein,) and 
when I saw her I wondered with great admiration." 

7. * And the angel said unto me, wherefore didst thou mar- 
vel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the 
beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten 
horns." 

8. ** The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall 
ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition ; and 
they that dwell on the Earth shall wonder (whose names were 
not written in the book of life from the foundation of the 
world) when they behold the beast that was, and i3 not, and 
yet is," (wondering who was not a Catholic because they call 
themselves a Christian Church.) 



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9. i: And here is the mind which hath wisdom, the seven 
heads are seven mountains, on which the woman satteth." (Is 
not Rome built on seven hilh or mountains ? and is it not the 
great Babylon?) 

10. u And there are seven kings, (or dynasties) five are fal- 
len, and one is, and the author is not yet come, and when he 
cometh, he must continue a short space. 

ILLUSTRATION". 

The first king or dynasty, was the first Babylon — head of 
gold or the lion. The second king or dynasty, was the Meed 
or Persian — breast and arms of silver, or the bear. Third, the 
Grecian — belly and thighs of brass, or the leopard. Fourth, 
the Roman — legs and feet of iron, feet part clay, or the great 
beast with iron teeth and ten horns. Fifth, of Satan, or the 
great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns, and he gives 
his power unto the beast, to corrupt the Earth, the dragon fal- 
ling from Heaven when Christ appeared in the world, and he 
preparing the way for the beast. Sixth, the beast with seven 
heads and ten horns or the Pope in full power wdiich lasted 
1260 } r ears down to Luther. Seventh is the scarlet colored 
beast with seven heads and ten horns and the woman, or the 
Roman Catholic Church, since Luther. And the eighth beast 
is the one of tw T o horns like a lamb and is of the seven, for he 
giveth his power unto the beast that was of the seven, and gc- 
eth into perdition with the rest. The seventh and last dynas- 
ty being in pow r er at the present time. The eighth dynasty, 
which is the seventh, and is anti-Christ. 

11. u And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth 
and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." 

12. " And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, 
which have received no kingdom as yet ; but receive power as 
kings one hour with the beast," (or Pope.) 

13. " These have one mind, and shall give their power and 
strength unto the beast," (the Pope of Rome, or the Catholic 
Church.) 

14. " These shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb 
shall overcome them ; for he is Lord of Lords, and King of 
Kings, and they that are with them are called, and chosen, and 
faithful." 



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■15. " And hesayeth unto me, the waters which thou saWest 
where the whore sitteth, are people, and multitudes, and na- 
tions, and tongues." 

16. " And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the heast, 
these shall hate the w 7 hore, and shall make her desolate and 
naked, and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire." 

17. " For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and 
to agree, and give their kingdom unto the heast, until the 
words of God should be fulfilled." 

18. u And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, 
which reigneth over the kings of the earth," (which is Rome.) 

Again, the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh beast, represent the 
fourth kingdom, the Roman Empire: only each one a different 
period of time, The fourth beast with ten horns, would rep= 
resent that period of time from the founding of 'Rome down to 
Christ, and the horns since that time, or the kings united with 
the beast in another form, or with the sixth one of seven heads. 

The fifth beast, the great red dragon with seven heads and 
ten horns, represents that period of time from Christ down to 
the breaking up of the Roman Empire into petty kings, or the 
horns of the beast, and the seven heads is the seven hilled city 
of Rome, the seat of the beast. 

The sixth beast, with seven heads and ten horns, represents 
that period of time since, down to Luther, 1260 years, in con- 
nection with these horns or kings, the seven heads is the same 
city, the seat of the dragon that was before him, and the horns 
are the kings connected with the beast, for they give their 
power unto the beast. 

The seventh or scarlet colored beast, with seven heads and 
ten horns, represents that period of time since Luther, the 
seven heads is the same city or seat, and the ten horns the same 
kings that are joined to the beast. The ten horns of all the 
beasts are typical of the same kings. Again, the fourth beast 
represents the legs of iron in the great image. 

The fifth beast represents the feet in the image of iron and 
clay. The sixth beast represents the toes in the image or the 
empire, split up into petty kingdoms, or horns of the beast. 

And the seventh beast is the same, joined unto the same 
ki.ng3 represented in the ten horns, and the same city or Baby- 
lon represented in the seven heads or seven hilled city, the city 



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of Rome ; and the woman that was exposed on the beast, the 
cup of her abominations, by the Bible, is the city that reigneth 
over the kings of the Earth. Since that time, the Catholic 
Church has tried everything to cover up her corruptions, and 
to destroy the Bible, their enemy ; to regain their former pow- 
er, and heal the deadly wound which they received from the 
preachings of Luther. 

The scarlet colored beast, with the woman, is the seventh 
dynasty, dated from the Diet of Worms, the beast citing Lu- 
ther before that tribunal, through the temporal power, for 
preaching the everlasting gospel, and prevailed not, but re- 
ceiving a deadly wound through the Bible and its light ; ex- 
posing the corruptions of the Catholic Church, and to fill up 
the measure of their cup, they are linking the chains of their 
power unto every other to keep their devoted heads out of the 
pit, Louis Bonaparte hitching on his power. 

It is remarkable of Babylon that they have ever pursued the 
same unchangeable iron will of principle and of chrushing the 
Word of God, the Bible, and the free use of the means to ex- 
pand the mind, and every spark of glimmering day, with her 
legends of tyranny. 

And as she occupies with her power the very seat in the feet 
of the vision of the great image of Babylon, and of the beast, 
she is caught in her own trap ; neither can she palm her weight 
off on to any other, for she inherits it by succession. Fill up 
the measure of your cup, then, tread down the Bible, tear it 
up, propagate the Catholic doctrines, not by fire and sword, 
like Mahomet, but by a worse tyranny, destroy the free schools 
in the United States, convert the people from a state of bar- 
berism to the Catholic faith on a par with Mexico, South Amer- 
ica, Italy, and all Catholic countries, being about the same 
state of morals ; exercise all your former power and tyranny, 
crush the nations of the earth, and the people, intellectually, 
on a par with the beasts, for the benefit of the few, and then 
the millenium would come most likely. If Hell did not, for 
you converted the Earth into Hell before Luther appeared, 
and would do it again if you had a chance. 

FALL OF BABYLON — SEVENTH VOICE. 

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I saw another angel come down from Heaven, having great 
power, and the Earth was lightened with his glory/ ; 

2. (i And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Baby- 
Ion the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation 
of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of 
every unclean and hateful bird." 

Illustration: Whereas, these abominations were partly 
known — they are now fully known. 

3. ■' For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath 
of her fornications, and the king3 of the Earth have commit- 
ted fornication with her, and the merchants of the Earth are 
waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. 3 * 

4 * Ahd I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, come 
out cf her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and 
that ye receive not of her plagues." 

5. "For her sins have reached unto Heaven, and God hath 
remembered her iniquities." 

6. (i Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto 
her double according to her works ; in the cup which she hath 
filled fill to her double." 

7. il How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deli- 
cieusly, so much torment and sorrow give her 5 for she saith 
ia her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see do 
sorrow." 

8. " Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, 
and mourning, and famine ; and she shall be utterly burned 
with fire; for strong is the hand, God, who judgeth her," &c. 

22. " And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great mill 
stone, and cast it into the sea, saying, thus with violence 
shall that great city Babylon, be thrown over, and shall be 
found no more at all," &c. 

Illustration : Now according to the last king or dynasty in 
the great chain of events that marked the course of the beast 
through the world, associated as it is with all the great events 
sf !he different times which it passed through down to the 
present time, treading down the whole Earth, persecuting the 
Bible, binding the chains of her tyranny with the kings of the 
Earth, oppressing the nations, both soul and body, and filling 
up that enormous cup of corruption until it has reached unto 
Heaven , for the Earth now groans with your weight, and your 



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end, which is ever at your doors, according to the seventh o: 
last dynasty, which is to continue for a short time only. 

24. <; Alid in her was found the blood of prophets, and of 
saints, and of all that were slain upon the Earth." 

Illustration: How many human beings were slain by the 
first Babylon, the lion — of the Meed or Persian, the bear — of 
the Grecian, the leopard? How. many of the Roman, the 
beast? for it is only power that you are after. How many by 
the dynasty of the dragon of seven heads and ten horns, for 
the dragon had seven crowns, which signifies power, the pow- 
er of the seven dynasties of the one to the other? How many 
of the beast with seven heads and ten horns, for there were 
crowns on the horns which signifies combined power, or the 
Pope, with the kings of the Earth, and of the seventh beast, 
perhaps the number would cover the whole Earth standing, 
Do the people of God learn war? will there be war in the 
millenium day ? 



REVELATIONS. 

MYSTERY OF THE BOOK SEALED WITH SEVEN SEALS. 

Chap. vi. (i In the mysteries of the book and the dpening of 
seals, is the mysteries of Babylon fulfilled and her acts typ- 
ified in her course through the world or her seven spiritual 
grades, from the dragon down. 

FIRST SEAL OR SPIRITUAL GRADE. 

" And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat on 
him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him ; and he went 
forth conquering and to conquer." 

Illustration : 1st. The white horse signifies good intentions. 
2d. The bow is the type of barberism, and the crown that of 
power, and he went forth conquering and to conquer, or the 
spread of the Catholic Church under the first Pope. 

SECOND SEAL OR GRADE. 

u And there went out another horse that was red, and power 

given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the Earth, 

and that they should kill one another -, and there was give* 

unto him a great sword. ;; 



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Illustration : 1st. The red horse signifies a stage of corrup- 
tion^ persecution, abomination and blood. 2d. And to the an- 
gel that sat thereon was given a great sword, or unlimited pow- 
er of the Pope, propagation, conquest. 

THIRD SEAL OR GRADE. 

(< And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third 
beast say, come and see, and I beheld, and lo ! a black horse j 
and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand." 

"And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts, say, 
a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley 
for a penny, and see thou but not the oil and the wine." 

Illustration i 1st The black horse represents great corrup- 
tion in the church, and the balances signifies meet weight, the 
turning of what ought to be called the house of God into a 
house of merchandise. 2. A measure of wheat for a penny, 
and three measures of barley for a penny, signifies the selling 
of the grasses of Christ for money. The oil and the wine the 
true grasses did not pay. 

FOURTH SEAL OR GRADE. 

cs And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice 
of the fourth beast say, come and see.." 

"And Hooked, and behold, a pale horse; and his name that 
sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him ; and pow- 
er was given unto them over the fourth part of the Earth to 
kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with 
the beast of the Earth." 

Illustration: 1st. Every conceivable abomination the Cath- 
olic Church turned into Hell, the purposes of Satan fully ac- 
complished. 2d. The four beasts that figured here are the four 
first kingdoms, Babylon, Persian, Grecian, and Roman. 

FIFTH SEAL OR GRADE. 

" And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the 
altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God, 
and for the testamony which they held." 

Illustration : 1st. Those that were slain for the Word of God, 
are those pious men that cried out against the corruptions of 
the Catholic Church, for the Catholics held that they were the 



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rce of till power, and of course, infallable ; therefore, des- 
troyed they them by the most horrid martyrdom that the devi- 
ces of hell could invent, for preaching the Word o£ God, and 
for the testimony which they held against them. 

SIXTH SEAL OR GRADE. 

"And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo! 
there was a great earthquake, and the sun become black as 
dackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood*" 

" And the stars of Heaven feiy &c. 

'•'And the Heaven departed as a scroll when it is x oiled to- 
gether ; and every mountain and island were moved out of 
their places." 

u And all men hid themselves in dens, and said to the moun- 
tains and rocks fall on us, for the great day of His wrath is 
come, and who shall be able to stand." 

Illustration : Now this signifies the first fall of Babylon, 
the great wound which the beast received and the wars in 
which the power of the Catholic Church was broken, but her 
deadly wound w r as healed, yet the great day of her fall will 
come. First, the sun was darkened, or the ignorance and 
superstition of Babylon, for they could not stand the light of 
the Bible. Second, the stars of Heaven fell, or- the fall of 
their power. Third, and the Heaven departed as a scroll, 
or the great sins of Babylon laid bare. Fourth, and the 
mountains were moved out of their places, or the mountain of 
their power shaken. Fifth, and all men hid themselves 
in dens, or the great wars of the times and 'plagues, neither re- 
pented they. 

SEVENTH SEAL OR GRADE. 

u And when he had opened the seventh seal, there v. 
lence in Heaven about the space of half an hour," (and why, 
because the mystery of God is finished, and the overthrow of 
Babylon.) 



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ACTS OF BABYLON. 

MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN ANGELS, ACCORDING TO THE 
SEVEN SEALS OR GRADES. 

Rev., chap, viii, 2d verse. " And I saw the seven angels 
which stood before God 5 and to them were given seven trum- 
pets." 

6. " And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets pre- 
pared themselves to sound." 

THE FIRST ANGEL, ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
FIRST SEAL. 

"The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire, 
mingled with blood, and they were cast upon ^the Earth, and 
the third part of the trees were burnt up, and all green grass 
was burnt up." 

Illustration of the first spiritual act: 1st. The power of the 
first Pope, the destruction of primitive Christianity. 2d. Fire 
and blood means despotism. 3d. The grass that was burnt up 
were the primitive christians that jfadcd away, or were de- 
stroyed. 

THE SECOND ANGEL, ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
SECOND SEAL. 

"And the second angel sounded, r and as it were a great 
mountain was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea 
became blood." 

Illustration of the second spiritual act : 1st. The sea is na- 
tions and people, and the mountains is that of great power, the 
tyranny and abominations of Rome. 2d. Spiritual corruption. 

THE THIRD ANGEL, ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
THIRD SEAL. 

"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star 
from Heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the 
third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water." 

Illustration of the third spiritual act: The bitter and oppres- 
sing yoke of Babylon. 



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THE FOURTH ANGEL,. ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
FOURTH SEAL. 

" And the fotfrlh angel sounded, and the third part of the sun 
was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part 
of the stars.'' 

Illustration of the fourth spiritual act: 1st. Darkness, cor- 
ruption and abomination. 2d. The light of the Gospel entirely 
put out. 

THE FIFTH ANGEL, ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
FIFTH SEAL. 

Rev., chap, ix, 1st verse. "And the fifth angel sounded, and 
I saw a star fall from Heaven unto the Earth, (or an angel) 
and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit." 

2. "'And lie opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a 
smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace, and the 
sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the 
pit." 

3. "And there come out of the smoke locust upon the earth, 
and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth 
have power,'* (or the power of Babylon and her corruptions.) 

6. " And in those days shall men seek death, and shall no 
find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them." 

11. "'And they had a king over them, which is the angel of 
i\iQ bottomless- pit," (or Satan.) 

Illustration of the fifth spiritual act : The Catholic Church 
sunk in the very depths of spiritual corruption, hell on earth, 
under the cloak of religion, mixed up with Pagan idolatry, 
sanctioning every device of murder, under its worst forms, 
extortion, persecution and plunder, sunk in gross darkness 
and degradation, for the air was darkened by the smoke of the 
pit 

THE SIXTH ANGEL, ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
SIXTH SEAL. 

13. " And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from 
the four horns of the golden altar which is before God." 

14. " Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, loos* 



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the four angels which were prepared for an hour, and a day^ 
and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men/* 
(or acts indefinite as to time.) 

18. a And the number of the army of the horsemen ""w ere 
two hundred thousand thousand, and I heard the number of 
them." 

17. ci And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that 
sat on them having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and of 
brimstone ; am. the heads of the horses were as the heads of 
lions 5 and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke, and brim- 
stone." 

19. i( For their power is in their mouths, and in their tails, 
for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with 
them they do hurt." 

20. u And the rest of the men which were not killed by these 
plagues, yet repented not of the works of their hands that they 
should not worship devils and idols of gold, and silver, and 
brass, and stone, and of wood, which neither can see, nor hear, 
nor walk." 

(This is the idolatrous worship of Rome 5 are not their tem- 
ples rilled with idols made in likeness of things that are in 
Heaven? do they not worship all these things? even their 
members will say their prayers over a string of beads ; can 
the beads answer prayers ?) 

21. "Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their 
sorceries, (or purgatory) nor of their fornication, (of the priest 
and nuns, because they are not married according to the Bible,, 
neither is their lust restrained,) nor of their thefts, (because 
they sell the grasses of Christ, which is free of cost, or they 
use them as a means to plunder the world, extortion, and at 
the same time take away the true grassas and let the unculti- 
vated mind starve 5 neither is a man or any person a christian 
who does not have access in some way to the free use and 
teachings of the Bible, much less are they fit for civil 
liberty.) 

1st. The plagues represented in the 17th, 19th, and 20th 
verses, are the great wars of the times since Luther. 2d. 
The fire and brimstone was that of fire-arms and artillery, in 
which the power of the Pope was broken. 



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REVELATIONS, 

Chapter x, 1st verse. "And [ saw another mighty angel 
come down from Heaven, clothed with a cloud; and a rainbow 
was upon his head, and his face was as it were the 'sun, and 
his feet as pillars of fire. 

2. •- And he had in his hand a little book open, (now what 
little book was that) and he set his right foot upon the sea, 
and his left foot on the earth. " 

3. " And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth, 
and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices." 
I And why were there seven thunders? because in them Baby- 
lon shall fall; behold, they have already uttered their voices.) 

6. "And (the angel) swore by him that liveth forever and 
ever, who created Heaven and things that therein are, and the 
earth and the thing:; that therein are, and the sea, and the 
things which are therein, that there should be time no longer," 
(or the end of the Catholic world.) 

7. •*' But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when 
he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished 
as he hath declared to his servants, the prophets," (or fall of 
Babylon.) 



ENTH ANGEL, ACCORDING TO THE MYSTERY OF THE 
SEVENTH SEAL. . 

Rev., chap, xi, 15th verse. u And the seventh angel sound- 
ed, and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, the king- 
doms of thi3 world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and 
of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." 

16. "And the four and twenty elders which sat before God 
on their seets, fell upon their faces and worshipped God." 



SEVEN LAST PLAGUES, OR SPIRITUAL GRADES 
OF BABYLON. 

Revelations, chap, xv, 1st verse. " And I saw anothej 

r 



11 BIBLE AS1R0X03I7. 

in Heaven, great and : , seven angels having the seven 

last plagues, for in them is filled up the wrath of God." 

2. •• And I saw I glass mingled with fire 5 

and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over 
his image, and over his mark, and over the number of hi* 
name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God." 



SEVEN LAST PLAGUES. 

Chap. xvi. 1st verse. a And I heard a great voice out of the 
temple, saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out 
the vials of the wrath of God upon the Earth.** 

Interpretation or the first of the last plagues, according to 
the mystery of the first seal. 

FIRST PLAGUZ 

2d verse. a And the first went and poured out his vial upon 
the Earth, and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the 
men which had the mark of the beast, and. upon them which 
worshipped his image." 

Illustration: Now, each of these plagues that was poured 
out upon the beast, or Catholic Church, correspond with the 
mystery of the seven seals or grades from the affinity of the 
beast with the dragon down to the present time; as well as 
the sound of the seven angels with the seven trumpets 
these plagues only follow as a natural consequence, from the 
effects that were produced, which could be felt, for there fell 
a grievous sore upon men which had the mark of the beast, 
they being bound hand and foot, soul and bod}% by the tempo- 
ral and spiritual power of the Catholic Church. 

Interpretation of the second of the last plagues, according to 
the mystery of the second seal. 

SECOND PLAGUE. 

3d verse. u And the second angel poured out his vial upon 
the sea; and it become as the blood of dead men ; and 
living soul died in the sea.'* 



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Illustration : Now, this js the second effect felt from the ef- 
fects of the second seal, and a regular grade of corruption in 
the church, and its power over the nations, and men were 
bound thereby as men that were dead; for the vied was poured 
out upon the sea or nations, and every living soul died, or the 
destruction of primitive Christianity. 

Interpretation of the third of the last plagues, according to 
the mystery of the third seal. 

THIRD PLAGUE. 

4th verse. ' f And the third angel poured out his vial upon 
the rivers and fountains of water, and they become blood."* 

Illustration : This is the third effect felt from the opening of 
the third seal, for the vial was poured out upon the rivers and 
fountains of water, or people, and they become blood also, or 
the extermination of the last remnant of primitive Christianity, 
showing that all the world was swallowed up in that mighty 
whirlpool of spiritual corruption. 

Interpretation of the fourth of the last plagues, according to 
the mystery of the fourth seal. 

FOURTH PLAGUE. 

8. * ; And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun, 
and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire," 

Illustration : i: This is the fourth effect felt from the fourth 
seal or spiritual grade, the church turned into hell, for they 
had power to scorch men with fire, or all power, spiritual cor- 
ruption. 

Interpretation of the fifth of the last plagues, according to 
the mystery of the fifth seal. 

FIUTH PLAGUE. 

10. * c And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat 
of the beast, and his kingdom was full of darkness, and they 
gnawed their tongues for pain.* 5 

Illustration : This is the fifth effect felt from the opening of 
. fifth seal or spiritual grade^ and why was the vial poured 



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out upon the seat of the beast, and why was their kingdom dark, 
because they put down the Bible 5 even them that preached 
the Word of God were slain according to the fifth seal, and 
for the testimony which they held. The Bible is tha light of 
the world and the Catholics put it out. What is the reason 
that the tree of civil liberty will not grow in Catholic coun- 
tries ? because there is not merit, morality, virtue or Christi- 
anity enough about them to nourish the tree, any more than 
there is among Pagans, as they both worship idols of gold 
and silver, and brass, and of wood. Will it grow in Mexico ? 
it will not, for it has been tried for some years, and the reason 
is that the barren soil of its mind has not been cultivated by 
the Bible. Will it grow in the barren soil of South America? 
it will not, for they are always divided with feuds and civil 
wars 5 plant the Bible first, then the tree of civil liberty will 
grow. Will it grow in Europe ? Will it continue to grow 
in the United States where the soil of the mind is being cul- 
tivated by the Bible. Destroy the Bible and the tree of civil 
liberty will wither and die. 

Interpretation of the sixth of the last plagues, according to 
the mystery of the sixth seal. 

SIXTH PLAGUE. 

12. " And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great 
river Euphrates,, and the water thereof was dried up, that the 
way of the kings of the East might be prepared." 

Illustration: The great river Euphrates means the great 
modern Babylon, the seat of the beast, this figure being ap- 
propriate as the first Babylon was built on that river, and tha ; 
destiny had passed away when this prophecy was given by 
St. John, and as Babylon descended in the great scale of the 
four destinies down to Rome, in regular succession, Rome, 
therefore, being the legs and feet connected in the great image 
of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of iron and clay, there- 
fore, Rome is the river, and ^the .vater was dried up, or the 
great wound that the beast received from the preaching of the 
Word of God, that the way of the kings of the East might be 
prepared, in which her power was greatly broken* 



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Rev., chap, xvi, 13th verse. " And I saw three unclean spir- 
its like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of 
the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false 
prophet." 

Illustration : This last verse identifies the type as the beast 
and her deadly wound was healed in the mystery or type of 
the frogs that went forth unto the kings of the Earth, and of 
the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day 
of God Almighty, or the power of Babylon arrayed for the 
last time, leagued with the kings of the Earth. 

15th verse, u Behold, I come as a thief 5 blessed is he that 
watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and 
they see his shame," (or put on your armor and fight the Lord's 
battles.) 

16. " And he gathered them together into a place called in 
Hebrew tongue, Armagedon, which, being interpreted, means 
the mountain of the Gospel." (This is the stone that was cut 
out without hands, that smote the image of temporal and spir- 
itual despotism, and of temporal and spiritual corruption.) 

SEVENTH PLAGUE. 

17. u And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air, 
and there came a great voice out of the temple of Heaven, 
from the throne, saying, it is done." 

19. K And the great city was div ided into three parts, (or 
the great Babylon divided against herself, army against army) 
and the cities of the nations fell, and great Babylon came in 
remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine 
of the fierceness of his wrath." 

20. w And every island fled away, and the mountains were 
not found." (Mountains of tyranny and corruption.) 

Now all these prophecies have been fulfilled, except the 
sound of the seventh angel, which is yet to sound, and the . 
seventh plague that is yet to come; and there is nothing to 
show when it will come, except the type of the wine press and 
the two mistical bodies that lay in the street of the great city, 
or Sodom, or Babylon, and that time was indefinite and un- 
certain. 



76 BIBLE ASTRONOMI. 

SPIRITUAL GRADES OF BABYLON. 

FIRST GRADE. 

The first grade of the dragon or the beast, which is Baby^ 
Ion, under her first Pope, was to organize into an absolute 
power to suit the pagan times of the northern barbarians that 
overrun Rome, and indeed they had good intentions, for an ar- 
bitrary power suited the times better, and the church could 
extend her conquest and increase her power, under the type of 
the white horse of the first seal. 

SECOND GRADE. 

Under the type of the red horse, which means a grade of 
corruption, corrupted with power and wealth, and they took 
peace from the Earth. 

THIRD GRADE. 

Under the type of the black horse, according to the third 
seal, which means degradation, corruption, and abomination. 

FOURTH GRADE. 

Under the type of the pale horse, which means great degra- 
dation of the church, degraded as bad as Satan wanted it to be, 
hell on earth. 

FIFTH GRADE. 

Under the type of the alter and the souls that were slain 
under it ; at this time the Catholic Church had become so cor- 
rupted that no one was allowed to preach the merits of the 
Bible, the Word of God, without being burnt at the stake, or 
murdered in the most cruel form, and this grade of Babylon 
was just before Luther. 

SIXTH GRADE. 

Babylon, or the Catholic [Church since Luther, by which 
she received her first fall, by the preaching of the Gospel, 
wounding the beast, yet repented she not that she should not. 
worship devils, and idojs of gold, and silver, and brass, and 
stone, and of wood. 

Neither repented she of her murders, nor of her sorceries, 
nor of her fornications, nor of her thefts. Now God has given 



BIBLE ASTRONOMT. 77 

them space to repent/yet practice they all these things, and 
displayed their golden cups of abomination, first, to allure the 
world into the snare ; , second, and then to practice all their 
former corruptions openly, for they have not altered any of 
their laws or creeds, they making use of all the means to put 
out the light of the world, the Bible, and then the wheat and 
barley would have to be paid for ; purgatory would show her 
horrid deformities again, as a means of extortion. 

SEVENTH GRADE. 

Or the final and everlasting overthrow of Babylon, the end 
of the Catholic world, Satan cast into the pit, and then the ref- 
ormation of the whole world after that, when all shall know 
the Lord in one universal song of praise to the ends of the 
Earth. 



It is remarkable that the Bible was not destroyed, being 
kept bound in fetters and chains like a criminal, for hundreds 
of years, yet God was watching it, and also the works of the 
devil ; was not the ark of the testament the ark of God, anions 
the Philistines seven months? did not God preserveHhat? did 
not their God Dagon, fall before it? so shall the Roman Cath- 
olic Church, the beast, fall before the seven thunders of the 
Bible and the sword of its spirit. 



THE OVERTHROW OF BABYLON. 

FIRST TYPE. 

Rev., chap, xiv, 14th verse. " And I looked, and behold a 
white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the son of 
man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a 
sharp sickle." 

14. u And another angel come out of the temple, crying with 
a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, thrust in thy sickle 
and reap, for the time is come for thee to reap, for the har- 
vest of the Earth is ripe." 

16th verse. " And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickla 
on the Earth, and the Earth was reaped." 



78 BIBLE ASTRO NOHF. 

Or the reformation of the whole world, yet will the reform 
mation make any inroads into the Catholic Church, or Re- 
forms ? It would follow, from the past, that they would 
not. Is she not building up her power, the power of the 
world, the power of Satan ? and not the power of God. 

SECOND TYPE. 

17th verse. "And another angel come out of the temple 
which is in Heaven, he also having a sharp sickle." 

18. ce And another angel come out from the altar, which had 
power over fire, and cried with a loud voice to him that had 
the sharp sickle, saying, thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather 
the clusters of the vine of the Earth, for her grapes are fully 
ripe." 

19. cc And the angel thrust in his sickle into the Earth and 
gathered the wine of the Earth and cast it into the great wine 
press of the wrath of God." 

20. " And the wine press was trodden without the city, and 
blood come out of the wine press, even unto the horse bridles, 
by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs." 

A furlong for a year 1600 years. This signifies the end of 
Babylon after her first fall, represented in the 14(h chapter of 
Revelations, in the wrath of God of her first and last fall, and 
the time would be collective ; therefore, let 1260 furlongs or 
years answer for the time of the beast that was before Lu- 
ther and the Diet of Wojms, in 1521, and the remainder will an- 
swer for the last 340 years from that time to the fall of Babylon. 

THIRD TYPE COLLECTIVE TIME. 

Rev., chap, xi, 1st verse. " And there was given me a reed 
like unto a rod, and the angel stood, saying, rise and measure 
the temple of God, and the alter and them that worship therein. 

2. " But the court, which is without the temple, leave out, 
and measure it not ; for it is given unto the Gentiles and the 
holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months," 
(or 12C0 days or years. The holy city is the Holy Bible that 
was bound 1260 years before Luther* stime.) 

3. c t And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they 
shall prophecy a thousand two hundred and three score days, 



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clothed in sackcloth/' (or 1260 years — the same as the other — 
and why were they clothed in sackcloth, because the people 
of God mourned over the true church that was trodden under 
foot by the power of Babylon, before Luther. 

7. " And w r hen they shall have finished their testimony, the 
beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war 
against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them/* (the 
beast, the Catholic Church.) 

8. " And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great 
city, (or Rome) which spiritually is called Sodom or Egypt, 
where also our Lord was crucified. " (Is not the Catholic 
Church corrupted worse than Sodom or Egypt ever was ? do 
they not bear the cross on which they crucify Christ every day 
of their lives ?) 

9. " And they of the people, and kindreds and tongues, and 
nations, shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and 
shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves." (The 
three days and a half would answer for that period of time 
since Luther, a day for a hundred years, 350 years. First, 
the type of the wine pi ess to the fall of the temporal power, 
340 or 350 years ; second, the mystical bodies of the spiritual 
power of Babylon from Luther.) 

10. " And they that dwell upon the Earth shall rejoice over 
them and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another, be- 
cause these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the 
Earth." 

11. "And after three days and a half the spirit of life from 
God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great 
fear fell upon them which saw them." 

12. u And they ascended up to Heaven in a cloud." 

13. " And the same hour was there a great earthquake. 55 

14. u The second was passed, and behold the third woe com- 
eth quickly," (or the seventh plague.) 

THIRD WOE. 

15th verse. "And the seventh angel sounded, and there 
were great voices in Heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this 
world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, 
and he shall reign forever and ever," (orthefall of Babylon.) 



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WAR WITH BABYLON. 

Rev., chap, xix, 11th verse. " And I saw Heaven opened, 
and behold, a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called 
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and 
make war." 

12. u His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were 
many crowns, (crowns mean power, the power of Proiestant 
churches, for they are many, and their crowns of power is the 
power of the Bible,) and he had a name written that no man 
knew but he himself." 

13. " And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood f 
and his name is called the Word of God," (or the Bible.) 

14. " And the armies, which were in Heaven, followed him 
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." 

15. " And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with 
It he should smite the nations, (this is the sword of the Bible,) 
and he shall rule them with a rod of iron ; and he treadelh the 
wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." 
(This wine press is the same one represented in the second 
type of the overthrow of Babylon.) 

16. a And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name 
written, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." 

17. " And I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried 
with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst 
of Heaven, come and gather yourselves together unto the sup* 
per of the great God ;" 

18. " That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of 
eaptains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, 
and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both 
free and bond, both small and great," (or the fall of despo- 
tism.) 

10. " And I saw the beast, and the kings of the Earth, and 
their arms, gathered together to make war against him thai 
sat on the horse, and against his army." 

tO. "And the beast was taken, and with him the false 
prophet that wrought miracles before nim, with which he de- 
ceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them 
that worshipped his image, (them that worshipped his image? 
do not the dupes pay homage to the dignities of Rome, on their 
Jtneea, for ignorance is the mother of devotion to idols and 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 81 

men,) these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning 
with brims f one," (according to the third type or fall of the 
spiritual power of Babylon — page 78 — for the angel treadeth 
the wine press of the wrath of God. ) 

21. " And the remnant were slain with the sword of him 
that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his 
mouth ; and all the fowls were filled with their flesh/' (or the 
fall of Babylon, according to the third type — pages 78 and 
79 — the exact time being indefinite and uncertain ; also, the 
time that it will take to prepare the world for the milleni- 
um is not kno>vn, or that day when it shall come. The first 
fall of Babylon was marked by the discovery of a new world, 
ao might her everlasting overthrow. ) 



There cannot be anything more grand, appropriate and typi- 
cal than the great image in designating the different grades rise 
and fall of tyranny and oppression in the world. The head 
shows the beginning of despotism, firmly united into ono king- 
dom, as well as the second in the beast and arms. And even 
in the third kingdom of brass firmly united in the belly, but 
in the thighs we see it divided; also in the fourth kingdom in 
the legs and feet of iron, which devoured the whole world, 
when at last, it in itself, in the ten toes of the great image, we 
see it divided into an indefinite number of kingdoms, united in 
the Romish church for hundreds of years down to the present 
day. But in the days of these kings, according to the prophe- 
cy of Daniel, shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom, 
which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be 
left to other people, (or these kings) but it shall break in pieces 
and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. 
Now, here is the great secret of the true church of Christ, 
and it is this, did the Roman Catholic Church ever do anything 
to break in pieces and consume these kingdoms ? The whole 
world knows that she never did ; has she not been instrumen- 
tal in perpetuating these dens of tyranny down to the present 
day by crowning them herself? She has. Therefore, she is 
not the true church, but a den of tyranny and spiritual corrup- 
tion, the synagogues of Satan, and the very gate to hell, for 
what is not of God is of the Devil. Nor are there any Catholics 



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that are christians much less are they fit for civil liberty 5 nor 
is it necessary to bring again these seven hesded types and 
horns of tyranny and spiritual grades of corruption, but the axe 
ii laid to the root of of the pernicious tree until she shall hide 
the face of her horrid deformity in oblivious seas. Again, 
these dens of tyranny that the Catholic Church have com- 
mitted fornication with, shall break loose from her, even as 
iron is not mixed with clay and shall eat her flesh and burn 
her with fire. Illustrated also in Revelations, 17th chapter, 
16th and 17th verses. 



DEFINITION OF SPIRITUAL RAPPINGS, OR MYS- 
TERY OF THE FROGS. 

Rev., chap, xvi, 13th verse. " And I saw three unclean spir- 
its like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out 
of the month of the beast, and oat of the mouth of the false 
prophet.-*' 

14. u For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, 
which go forth unto the kings of the Earth, and of the whole 
world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God 
Almighty." 

The first type of these frogs that has developed itself, evi- 
dently is this spiritual rapping, which is the spirit of devils 
working miracles, for the purpose of drawing the people of 
God away from the Bible ; and this suits the spirit of the 
Catholic Church against God's holy word, for the fall that she 
received when it first broke her chains, and the wound that 
was healed in the war that she made against it. How many 
enemies has the Bible had ? That of infidelity, and yet it still 
lives, and this is the great battle of the Lord in the number 
of its enemies that now is, and are to be arrayed against it, 
and that great day when ail the powers of hell shall be ar- 
rayed against the Word of God and its champions. Will ye 
be deceived by them and the miracles which they have power 
to do in the sight of men ? And as the spirit of the frog? has 
only just begun, they may attain to great perfection to deceive 
in opening the wonders of the spirit world to the vision, and 
always in contradiction to the Word of God ; and as all 



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true miracles ceased with Christ and the Apostles, we may set 
down all others that have been performed from time to time in 
the Catholic Church. Spiritual Rapping, and Mormonism, as 
sorceries, and from the Devil ; neither should it be investiga- 
ted as a philosophy. 

16. u And he gathered them together into a place called in 
the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." 

This Armageddon being interpreted, means the mountain of 
the Gospel, the Bible. And this is the rock on which its cham- 
pions are to stand in that day. Will ye no': fight or.e battle 
for your Lord and Master ? Behold, all tie powers of hell 
shall be arrayed against you and the Word of God, and you 
must take up that great spiritual sword and fight with devils ; 
Christ is your captain; will you not fight this great Goliah and 
his army, or shall others arise more worthy to combat with the 
encroaching tyranny and corruptions of the world, lest it swal- 
low us up. Behold, the battle is the Lord's, and unto him be 
the glory, the power, and the dominion, forever and ever. 

17. " And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air, 
and there came a great voice out of the temple of Heaven, 
from the throne, saying, it is done. 3 ' 

18. " And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings, 
and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men 
were upon the Earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great." 

19. u And the great city was divided into three parts (which 
is Babylon) and against herself ; (see Revelations, 17th chap- 
ter, 16 h verse) and the cities of the nations fell, and great 
Babylon (the Catholic Church) come in remembrance before 
God, to give unto her the cup of the fierceness of his wrath." 

20. " And every island fled away, and the mountains were 
not found." 

DEFINITIONS OF THE FROGS. 

Rev., chap, xvi, 13th verse. " And I saw three unclean spir- 
its like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of 
the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet." 

Now this dragon is the devil that fell from Heaven; the one 
that persecuted the woman and her seed, or the primitive chris- 
tians, represented in the 12th chapter of Revelations, and il- 
lustrated in the fifth voice of this book; and his persecutions of 

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the early christians, and his seat which he give unto the beast 
after him. This same thing is played over again against the 
christians of the present day, and against the testimony which 
they hold in the spirit of the first type of the frogs that the 
dragon cast out of his mouth in the spiritual rapping of the 
present day, which are the spirits of devils, repudiating the 
plan of salvation as taught by the Bible, and upholding that of 
purgatory, and confirming the same by miracles, which goes 
to show how the Catholics come by the system which they got 
from the devil, the great red dragon, and the power that he 
give unto them, and of that which is now flowing into their 
hands by the same means in the present day, and as the sys- 
tem works well in their £avor, we may look for the second 
type as a more regular tried system of miracles to deceive, that 
cometh out of the mouth of the beast. The Catholic Church, 
the devil taking care of his own, the Catholics, and seeking to 
destroy the Protestants by miracles ; and as they are proph- 
esying their downfall, and of their own final triumph and 
dominion over all the world, we may look for great delusions 
in the third type, in time of these false prophets, and the 
power of its operation among the people to destroy them 
and the holy word of God. Will ye not put your heel upon 
the serpents head with a vengeance, and these dupes (infidels) 
that have no souls except a miserable deformity, and the great 
void which they possess must be filled with this trash. And 
if the Catholics do perform miracles, it would only be to draw 
the whole world after them, and the spirits of those devils that 
come out of their purgatory to deceive the people; neither can 
it be understood as a philosophy, only to deceive fools. 
^1 15. "Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, 
lest he walk naked and they see his shame." 

Or, blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth clear of these 
abominations and blasphemies, lest his shame is seen ; but this 
is not all: you have to fight these corruptions least ; they 
jwallow us up and destroy the world in one universal deluge 
af despotism and corruption, without any prospect of a future* 



BIBLR ASTRONOMI. 85 

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. 

It would follow from the Bible, that as the early christians 
were destroyed by the dragon and given into his hand, and 
into the hand of the beast after him, 1260 years, that the Cath- 
olic Church was the kingdom of Satan, because the true church 
did not exist during this time'only in obscurity, and the devil 
or dragon not only reared up this den of tyranny and corrup- 
tion, but taught them the principles of purgatery, and to wor- 
ship images of gold, and of silver, and brass, and of wood, 
which neither can see, nor hear, or walk; and not only this 
but to commit all manner of abominations against God, and 
then go and confess the same to a priest, whom they worship, 
and which they dare not offend. 

Nor would the devil or dragon have any interest in deceiv- 
ing the Catholics, for they are already deceived, and are his 
own ; but the Protestants are the ones that he is " after, and to 
deceive them by miracles, and to build up the Catholics by 
the same in the second type of the frogs ; nor will the devil be 
likely to make much headway among the Protestants in the 
first type, as soon as they find out from whence the mystery of 
these abominations come ; therefore, the chief strength of 
Satan will be in the second type, and the manner of its opera- 
tion not known ; but most likely it will be among the Catho- 
lics in open manifestations, not individual miracles like the 
third type would be likely to be, but a miraculous distinction 
between the Catholics and Protestants, that cometh out of the 
mouth of the beast, the Catholics, against the Protestants to 
destroy them and the testimony which they hold, the Bible. 
This is the battle of the Lord and of his word, not only against 
Babylon, but Infidelity, Mormonism, and Spiritual Rapping, in 
all its types. Nor is this the great battle, the battle of Gog 
and Magog, for that comes after the millenium 5 but is -the 
power of the Bible against the powers of Hell combined, in 
all the horrid types, as set forth in Revelations, and of the 
great image of Nebuchadnezzer, which is tipical of all. Again^ 
why did not the Bible grind this great image of despotism and 
corruption into powder when it first appeared in the world 
under the preaching of Luther, and of those after him, because 
fair play was intended, not only that they should repent if 
they chose^ but that they should recruit their armies in all it* 



86 BIBLE ASTRONOMY 

forms 5 then shall ye know whether the word of God shall 
stand or fall when it shall face about in battle array and grind 
this gigantic image into dust ! When the king of glory shall 
come in, and the high arm is broken — when this great veil of 
mystery is removed in the destruction of the kingdom of Satan, 
in the great battle of the Lord, and of that great day when the 
Jews also shall come in and praise God that he liveth forever 
and ever! Then shall Christ, their king, own ai d bless them, 
when every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the 
rough places made smooth, when all nations shall unite their 
bantling tongues in songs of praise to God and the Lamb ; 
the sword also shall be turned into the plowshare and the spear 
into the pruning hook, and the nations shall not learn war 
any more ; when the lion and the fatling shall lie down to- 
gether, and the Earth blossom as the rose. 



THE MILLENIUM. 

Rev., chap, xx, 1st verse. " And I saw an angel come down 
from Heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a' 
gTeat chain in his hand." 

2. Ci And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which 
is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." 

3 u And cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up, 
and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no 
more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled, and after that 
he must be loosed a little season." 

4. (i And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judg- 
ment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them that 
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the Word of 
God, (the Bible) and which had not worshipped the beast, 
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their 
foreheads, or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with 
Christ a thousand years." 

5. " But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thou- 
sand years were finished. This is the first resurrection." (But 
where are the Catholics? are they in purgatory, or the pit? 



BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 8T 

SATAN AGAIN AFTER THE MILLENIUM. 

Revelations, chap, xx, 7th verse. " And when the thousand 
years are expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison." 

When the Earth will be rapidly corrupted after the former 
and antedeluvian tvorld. 

8. (i And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in 
the four quarters of the Earth, Gog and Magog, to gather 
them together to battle; the numbers of whom are as the sands 
of the sea." 

9. " And they went up on the breadth of the Earth, and 
compassed the camp of the saints about and the beloved city, 
and fire c-\me down from God out of Heaven and devoured 
them." 

10. " And the devil that deceived them was cast into the 
lake of fire and brimstone, w^here the beast and the false proph- 
et are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. 

JUDGMENT DAY. 

Rev., chap, xx, 11th verse. " And I saw a great white throne, 
and him that sat on it, from whose face the Earth and the 
Heaven fled away ; and there was found no place for them," 
(the form of the Earth and the Heaven inside of it passing 
away.) 

12. u And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God, and the books were opened ; and another book was open- 
ed, which is the Book of Life ; and the dead were judged out 
of those things which are written in the books, according to 
their works." 

13. " And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and 
death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and 
they were judged every man according to his works." 

14. " And death and hrll were cast into the lake of fire. 
This is the second death." 

15. fc And whosoever was not tomd written in the book of 
life was cast into the lake of fire." 

REVELATIONS 21ST CHAPTER. 

1st verse. "And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for 
the first Heaven and the first Earth passed away, and there 
was no more sea," (or the Earth in its new form.) 



88 BIBLE ASTRONOMY. 

For one to suppose that in the great judgment day or of the- 
Earth in its new form, that the starry heavens would pas* 
away, would be inconsistent with reason, for the stars to be 
condemned to everlasting destruction because this world had 
sinned. The earth alone only passes through its seventh grade. 

THE EARTH IN ITS NEW FORM. 

When God shall raise the Earth in the new and beautiful 
form, a new Heaven and a new Earth, arrayed in all the splen- 
dor of that celestial glory of glittering worlds, the great city of 
everlasting rest, when the former things are passed away, and 
all things are become new of the Earth in its new form 3 then 
it shall take its place among the bright constellations of the 
Heavens and stand forever. Moreover, it would follow in the 
order of succession, that after the Earth had passed through 
its seventh grade that God would appear again in the Heavens 
in the same light that he appeared in when he made this world, 
and in it create and make a new system of worlds and a sun to 
give them light somewhere in the starry Heavens, when all the 
sons of God shall shout for joy when they behold the light and 
the worlds that spring into existence at his command, in the 
order of succession, and at different times, down in the staler 
periods of never ending eternity; for they shall behold all the 
works of his hands and praise God that liveth forever and 
ever. Thi3 is the true astronomy— let all others hide their 
faces, together with all their rotten and corrupt philosophy, 
or that part of it that leads to infidelity, with all that horde of 
skepticism and its learned adherents, graduated with a finished 
education, knowing all that is possible for any man to know 
in any State, like Job, when the Lord answered him out of the 
whirlwind, and said : 

2. " Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without 
knowledge ?" 

3. " Gird up now thy loins like a man, (or great learning) 
for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me." 

4. " Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the 
Earth? declare if thou hast understanding." (The remod- 
eling of the Earth.) 

5. "Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest? 
or who hath stretched the line upon it V* 



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-5. u Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened ? or 
who laid the corner-stone thereof?" (Rotation.) 

7. " When the morning stars sang together and all the sons 
of God shouted for joy." (The new world.) 

8. u Or who shut up the see wilh doors, when it breaks 
forth, as if it had issued out or the womb?" (The flood.) 

9. "When I made the cloud, the garment thereof, and the 
thick darkness a swaddling band for it." 

10. * And break up for it my decreed place, and set bare 
and doors. " (Polar projections.) 

11. " And said, hereunto shalt thou come, but no 'farther, 
and here shall thy proud waves be stayed." 

12. " Hast thou commanded the morning since thy daysj 
and caused the day spring to know his place 5" 

13. "That it might take hold of the ends of the Earth, that 
the wicked might be shaken out of it ?" 

14. " It is turned as clay to the seal, and they stand as a 
'garment." 

15. " And from the wicked their light is withholden, (or 
seeing they do not understand) and the high arm shall be bro- 
ken." 

16. " Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea ? or hast 
thou walked in the search of the depths?" 

17. "Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? (or 
does any one know the spirit world,) or hast thou seen the 
doors of the shadow of death?" 

18. " Hast thou perceived the breadth of the Earth? De- 
clare if thou knowest it all." 

19. " Where is the way where light dwelleth, and as for 
darkness, where is the place thereof ;" 

20. " That thou shouldst take it to the bound thereof 3 and 
that thou shouldst know the path to the house thereof." 

21. " Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or be- 
cause the number of thy days is great 5" (or great learning.) 

Yet it is great to be learned, if it is of the right kind, and 
good to be great in being a servant to elevate our neighbor, 
which is the whole world, except our selfish rich neighbor, that 
is past cure, and those fools that worship them for their 
gold ; who make a great display of their wealth, and the lineage 
of their royal descendents \ those that do not claim to have de* 



ERRATA. 



There are two or three mistakes of small note that have crept into thi3 
book. One is the 20th quotation in the fourth grade of the Earth, and if 
should have been left out. as it belongs to the fifth ; and one also in mag- 
netic attraction, in a mere matter of experiment with a single ball, as 
there should be but one open pole to it for experiment, because the attrac- 
tion wou'd l-e balanced between the two poles of the Earth, and of the two 
poles of balls, a d would not act unless there was an angle or a difference 
between the two poles, as the attraction invariably reverses in crossing 
the Equator* a> d as the attraction of the Earth would be the strongest there 
is nothing that can compete with it, only to cause a small variation, and 
that only with but oe open pole to the ball, and the ball containing lo se 
attractive material at the same time, or when under experiment. 



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